Several celebrities including Ryan Gosling, Alicia Silverstone, Emily Deschanel, Zooey Deschanel and Ed Begley Jr. have signed a letter on behalf of Mercy for Animals to McDonald's about animal cruelty and asking the company to switch to free range eggs.
This letter apparently stems from an incident in November when MFA caught one of McDonald's supppliers (Sparboe Farms) torturing the hens on their farm. McDonald's was using this farm to get eggs for their popular breakfast item the Egg McMuffin.
Here is a statement from MFA about the cruelty they documented via video:
"Hens crammed into filthy battery cages and dead hens left to rot alongside birds still laying eggs for human consumption. The investigator also documented workers burning off the beaks of chicks without painkillers, sadistically and maliciously torturing animals, and throwing live birds into plastic bags and leaving them to suffocate."
McDonald's immediately dropped that supplier and have switched to 100% cage free eggs in Europe, but not in the US and the letter from MFA and the celebrities claims that McDonald's is not doing enough.
Here is a small portion of the letter:
"Sadly, there is not a single federal law to protect hens from cruelty from the time they hatch to the time they are killed. While MCDonald's brags about the ‘billions and billions served', millions of hens exploited for your restaurants are being grossly underserved. In fact, these animals are being abused in ways that would land your egg suppliers in jail, if dogs or cats were the victims."
Other celebrities listed on the letter are Steve-O, Bryan Adams, Kristin Bauer, Wendie Malick and Maria Menounos.
PETA has also asked McDonald's to stop animal cruelty via the website McCruelty.com
Do you think McDonald's is trying to improve or are they not doing enough?
Bryce Vasquez
said on December 24, 2011