Dear Supporter,

If you are a Costco member and care about the welfare of farm animals, we are asking you to take a few minutes today and help us out.

Here's how:

Typically, Costco updates its online farm animal welfare policy in December. We want the corporate buyers at Costco to know that its members want to buy pork that is 100% crate free. Even though Costco states that its pork supply chain will be gestation crate free by 2022, their major pork suppliers tell a different a story. Even beyond 2022, these suppliers are committed to locking up mother pigs in gestation crates for the first six weeks after they are impregnated (that's one third of their pregnancy!).  

Gestation crates are widely recognized as cruel and inhumane. They immobilize a mother pig in a space so tiny it’s roughly the same size as her body, so narrow she can’t even turn around. Please let Costco know that you want them to commit to ending the use of gestation crates for a mother pig’s entire pregnancy cycle by 2022.

Simply add your comment in the discussion box below, and we'll send it directly to Costco for you. Let your voice be heard ... it's up to us consumers to make life better for the animals that feed us.

For the Animals,
Crate Free Illinois