First Wegmans Egg Petition delivery
Shortly after an investigation revealed widespread animal cruelty at Wegmans' egg farm, we began a petition drive to convince CEO Danny Wegman that his customers care about this issue. The Humane Society of the U.S. has asked Wegmans to phase out their cruel “battery” cages, and we're urging Mr. Wegman to follow their advice, like so many other companies have already done.
With over 2,100 signatures collected by mid-April 2006, it was time for a delivery. Hoping to grab Danny's attention, we rolled into Wegmans corporate headquarters with three shopping carts full of plastic colored eggs — each containing a signature from a concerned Wegmans customer.
Note: if you haven't signed yet, please do: we'll keep delivering the signatures as they come in. Thank you for caring!
Media coverage
RNews
RNews is Time Warner's news channel for Rochester, New York. A camera crew came out to Wegmans headquarters and captured some great video footage of the event. (Note: this clip has closed-captions: click on the CC icon to toggle them on or off.) The station also published a short writeup on its website.
WXXI Radio
WXXI is Rochester's NPR member station. Host Deanna Garcia came out to cover the event, and WXXI aired segments from her interview on April 17th and 18th.
- Article: Vegetarian Group Petitions Wegmans About Egg Farm
- April 17th audio segment: MP3 audio, transcript
- April 18th audio segment #1: MP3 audio, transcript
- April 18th audio segment #2: MP3 audio, transcript
