Canada’s largest supermarket chains have announced they will
only stock cage-free eggs by 2025.
That’s Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro and Wal-Mart plus dozens of
smaller chains, all members of the Retail Council of Canada.
The announcement is rather meaningless because the Chicken
Farmers of Canada, the national supply-management agency for quota holders, has
already announced that its members are to be cage-free by 2026.
The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies put out a news
release to “congratulate the Retail Council of Canada on this decision and to
thank them for their leadership.”
The humane societies didn’t put in
a single word of congratulations for the farmers who are the ones who will be
doing all the hard lifting.
