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Kroger promised to end cages by 2025. Time’s up.

Kroger continues to profit from the extreme confinement of millions of animals: hens trapped in cruel cages, day after day, year after year.

Kroger can fulfil its overdue promise. And you have the power to make sure it does.

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Send Kroger a clear message: Keep your promise, go cage-free

Kroger walked away from its cage-free commitment. Let’s make sure it can’t do so quietly.

It only takes a minute to email Kroger and remind them that people across the world are paying attention. Each message turns up the pressure and proves that shoppers, supporters and communities expect responsible choices, not animal suffering.

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I want to express my deep concerns about the treatment of animals in Kroger’s egg supply chain and how the company hasn’t lived up to its public promises.

Back in 2016, Kroger said it would stop selling eggs from caged hens. But even now, millions of hens in your supply are still kept in tiny battery cages where they can’t spread their wings. This difference between what Kroger promised and what’s really happening is becoming clear to customers, investors, and others, and it’s hurting trust.

As a top leader at one of America’s biggest grocery stores, you have the power and responsibility to make sure Kroger keeps its word.

Please act right away by creating and publicly sharing a detailed plan with deadlines to get rid of cages in your egg supply chain. Not doing this will only weaken trust in Kroger’s promises and leadership further.

Kroger has an important decision ahead: step up with real leadership or keep letting people down on expectations.

Thank you for considering this. I hope you will take strong steps so that Kroger’s actions match its words.

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Hold Kroger’s decision-makers to their word

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Behind Kroger’s cartons: a life in a cage

Picture endless stacks of wire cages. Bars on every side. Birds crammed together with barely room to move. In these conditions, a hen can never build a nest, perch, take a dust bath, feel solid ground beneath her feet, or open her wings.

The result is predictable and brutal: fractured bones, untreated wounds and feather loss caused by relentless, extreme confinement inside wire enclosures. This is cruelty by design, and Kroger bears responsibility for putting these eggs on its shelves.

Kroger’s promises: empty and rotten

Kroger set itself a clear goal: no more cages for hens by 2025. The date arrived and quietly slipped away. The cages are still there. The hens are still suffering.

Consider the wider picture:

• Across Europe, cage confinement for laying hens is being phased out, with the EU actively working to end the caging of farmed animals for good.

• Beyond Europe, from New Zealand to a growing number of US states, laws banning cruel cage confinement are building momentum.

• Major companies have already acted. McDonald’s has ended its use of caged eggs, and leading grocers such as Target and Ahold Delhaize have full, credible plans to eliminate cages.

While others lead, Kroger lags behind – offering excuses instead of accountability. By clinging to caged eggs, Kroger is letting down both customers and animals.

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Each chicken has less than the space of a single sheet of A4 paper to live in on a typical UK egg farm. You can save chickens from a life of misery by replacing eggs in your meals with plant-based alternatives.

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