{"id":5144,"date":"2017-12-06T07:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T07:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wesign.conikal.com\/simple\/petition\/tell-walmart-brazil-to-stop-selling-eggs-from-confined-hens\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T07:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T07:20:57","slug":"tell-walmart-brazil-to-stop-selling-eggs-from-confined-hens","status":"publish","type":"petition","link":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/petition\/tell-walmart-brazil-to-stop-selling-eggs-from-confined-hens\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Walmart Brazil to Stop Selling Eggs from Confined Hens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did your eggs come from caged hens?<\/strong>\u00a0If you shop at Walmart Brazil stores, the answer is likely yes.<\/p>\n<p>New video footage shot at a factory farm that provides eggs to a Walmart Brazil egg supplier reveals the<strong>\u00a0disturbing reality for birds crammed in tiny cages<\/strong>. Unable to walk freely, spread her wings, or rest comfortably, each hen spends her miserable life on floor space smaller than a sheet of notebook paper.<\/p>\n<p>In these unsanitary conditions, sickness, disease, and death run rampant.\u00a0<strong>The video reveals birds trapped in sharp cage wire or under feed troughs, trampled by their cagemates and unable to reach food and water.<\/strong>\u00a0Surrounded by the stench of excrement and rotting corpses of other hens, this grim existence is the only one these tortured animals will ever know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Battery cages are so inhumane they have been banned in the European Union and many U.S. states.<\/strong>\u00a0Walmart has already agreed to go cage-free in the United States and Canada; yet in Brazil,<strong>\u00a0the company continues to buy from egg suppliers that cram hens into cruel cages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even leading food retailers in Brazil, including Burger King, Subway, McDonald&#8217;s, KFC, and Spoleto, have publicly pledged to switch to cage-free eggs. It\u2019s time for Walmart Brazil to do the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please, take a moment to sign this petition calling on Walmart to prevent animal torture by prohibiting cruel cages in its entire egg supply chain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","petition_category":[32],"petition_topics":[77,192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition\/5144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/petition"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"petition_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition_category?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"petition_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition_topics?post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}