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IHOP to test use of cage-free eggs after Humane Society campaign
20 December 2009
After a rigorous campaign urging International House of Pancakes (IHOP) to switch to cage-free eggs, The Humane Society
received promising news. The breakfast food chain has “agreed to begin
testing the use of cage-free eggs, and, if successful, intends to
switch millions of eggs from battery to cage-free within the next few
months.”
Egg laying hens for IHOP’s main egg supplier, Michael Foods, are
confined in crowded battery cages that are so small the birds cannot
even spread their wings. The hens live in the deplorable conditions
which amount to an area about the size of a piece of paper. After a
year the hens are slaughtered.
In September Bill Maher starred in a video for The Humane Society where
he deemed IHOP, the International House of Pain as he explained the
conditions in which hens are “crammed into tiny cages where they can
barely move an inch.” (See pictures below.)
The encouraging news of IHOP’s possible switch to cage-free eggs has led the animal protection organization to put a moratorium on the IHOP animal cruelty campaign. The pancake house willupdate The Humane Society by March 15 with news on the transition.
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