Action Alert: Urge Trader Joe's To Go Cage-Free!

Campaign Victory!

After several months of campaigning led by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Trader Joe's announced in November 2005 the adoption a cage-free policy for its store brand eggs. According to The HSUS, this decision is expected to have a positive impact on the lives of an estimated 380,000 laying hens who provide the more than 100 million Trader Joe's brand eggs sold each year. Learn more about this campaign victory.

Birds who are intensively confined in battery cages suffer from a number of debilitating welfare problems, including the inability to perform many natural behaviors (such as nesting, roosting, and preening), feather-loss, bone weakness, and various injuries or diseases that go untreated. Nearly 300 million egg-laying in the U.S. are forced to live in such misery.

Tragically, this cruel and archaic battery-cage system currently dominates the U.S. egg industry, but a number of universities, grocery store chains, and food service providers are taking a stand against it by adopting cage-free egg policies. Learn more about The HSUS's No Battery Eggs Campaign.