TESCO – PLEASE GO CAGE-FREE!

Tesco is the largest supermarket in the UK which has nearly 2,000 stores throughout the country. On the shelves of each of its stores you will find eggs on sale that have come from chickens reared in the most abhorrent living conditions, eggs that have come from hens kept in battery cages…

Life in a battery cage… means life behind bars!

A typical metal battery cage

• is completely barren
• is about the size of a microwave oven
• allows each hen a useable area of 550cm2, less than the size of an A4 piece of paper
• houses up to five hens for a year
• does not allow the hens to fully stand up straight, stretch their wings, run, fly or make a nest. All they can do is eat, drink, pass waste and, of course, lay eggs.

Confinement, boredom and overcrowding in these tiny cages can cause frustration, aggression and feather-pecking among chickens. The birds may also experience chronic suffering, osteoporosis, severe bone weakness, physical deformity and premature death.

Please don’t buy into the cruelty of battery eggs, Go Cage-Free!

Scotland’s biggest egg producer, Glenrath Farms Ltd, supplies eggs to Tesco. This company was exposed by Advocates for Animals' investigators in 2007 for breaching Scottish animal welfare regulations on one of its many battery farms.

Investigators found up to eight birds crammed into barren wire cages, which according to welfare rules should only have held a maximum of five birds, and many birds showed significant feather loss as well as severe foot deformities, as seen below. Dead and decomposing birds were also discovered.  

TAKE ACTION!

Please contact Tesco's Chief Executive, Terry Leahy, and ask that Tesco stop selling eggs from battery hens. You can e-mail him at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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