Many of us are loyal Aldi shoppers who appreciate the grocery chain’s quality, low-priced foods, commitment to sustainability, and desire to serve its customers in meaningful ways. That’s why it is especially disheartening to learn that unlike many other food companies in the U.S., Aldi still has not committed to requiring its pork suppliers to stop locking mother pigs in tiny “gestation crates” for virtually their entire lives.

Please sign our petition. Urge Aldi to take the more responsible road like so many other retailers and commit to a 100% gestation crate free supply chain by 2022.

Gestation crates are widely recognized as cruel and inhumane. They confine a mother pig throughout her 4-month pregnancy in a space so tiny it’s roughly the same size as her body, so narrow she can’t even turn around. The mother pig is subsequently transferred into another crate to give birth, re-impregnated, and then put back into a gestation crate. This inhumane cycle repeats, pregnancy after pregnancy, for virtually their entire lives, adding up to years of immobilization.

Almost every leading company in the food industry has listened to public opinion and committed to a timeline to phase out purchasing from pork producers using gestation crates —from restaurants like McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy’s to other cost-conscious retailers such as Costco, Trader Joe’s, and Kroger. As one of the largest grocers in the U.S., it is time for Aldi to do the same and acknowledge that animals ought to be given enough space to at least turnaround. 

Aldi says it cares about what its customers want. Please sign and share this petition and let Aldi know that you care about the animal welfare practices of their pork suppliers. Ask them to commit to phasing out the use of gestation crates for a mother pig’s entire pregnancy from its supply chain within a specified timeframe.