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  • 2016-04-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Costco Lying About Cage-Free Eggs? (en)
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  • On 19 April 2016, the web site Sun Gazing published an article (THIS Is The Disturbing and Alarming Secret Costco Does Not Want You To Know About Their Eggs!) and urged readers to SHARE it with friends and family: The embedded video was published on 9 June 2015 by the Humane Society of the United States about a May 2015 undercover investigation. It concluded that chickens producing eggs for some Costco suppliers were kept in abysmal and abusive conditions, including overcrowding and being kept alongside the mummified corpses of other chickens. The June 2015 video maintained that Costco was lying to consumers by using imagery of uncaged chickens on some packaging; however, most Costco egg packaging did not feature that imagery. The length of the investigation, the circumstances under which it was conducted, and the connection (if any) to Costco's supply chain was not clearly shown. After the video's April 2016 reappearance, concerned customers visited Costco's page to ask whether the claims were accurate. In response to one such query, a Costco representative replied: The linked statement was published in December 2015 (several months before the April 2016 article), and said: The retailer's transition to cage-free eggs apparently began in 2006. While some of Costco's eggs are still not cage-free, the chain has committed to eventually moving to a completely cage-free environment and does not appear to have lied about that position or refused to disclose a timeline for the transition. Cage-free eggs are available (and clearly marked) at Costco, and the retailer has provided documentation of the proportion of cage-free eggs sold by Costco across a ten-year period. Although it is true that some eggs sold at Costco are not cage-free, the retailer does not lie about the source of their eggs to consumers. The company has offered cage-free options to their members and disclosed both the proportions of cage-free eggs sold and a timeline for going completely cage-free in December 2015. (en)
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