DEANNA GARCIA, HOST: A local vegetarian education group is asking the CEO of Wegmans Food Markets to change the way its farm in Wolcott is run. The group, UR-VEG, says the chickens on that farm are packed in small cages and live lives of pain and abuse.

HOSS FIROOZNIA: The hens are confined to a space approximately the same size of a sheet of notebook paper, or smaller, for their entire lives. They never see sunlight. They never touch the earth. They never get to exercise a whole range of natural behaviors. They never get to perch or brood their eggs. They often end up living in filth, often sleeping and standing atop rotting corpses -- it's really a horror show.

GARCIA: That's UR-VEG member Hoss Firooznia. Wegmans says the charges are false. The company says investigations have found no evidence of animal abuse and the farm continues to pass inspections. The group however disputes those claims, and today delivered more than 2,000 petition signatures folded inside of little plastic colored eggs to Wegmans headquarters. The petitions ask the company to phase out the use of small cages on their company farm. The company confirms the petition signatures are at the headquarters, but they won't say whether or not they'll get to CEO Danny Wegman.