Sodexo is one of the largest foodservice providers, and some of their clients are colleges and universities, including California State University San Marcos, Grossmont College, and Point Loma Nazarene University.

Sodexo was recently named in The Humane League's Foodservice Provider Guide. This guide shows which companies are being transparent with the progress they're making around animal welfare issues.

Sadly, the vast majority of animals raised for Sodexo's clients live a life of constant misery:

1. Chickens raised for meat are bred to grow at such an alarming rate that they suffer from agonizing leg deformities, chemical burns from lying in ammonia-laden waste, and even organ failure. At the slaughterhouse, they are violently shackled upside down, painfully shocked with electricity, and cut open at the throat—often while still conscious and able to feel pain.
2. Sodexo suppliers still trap egg-laying hens in battery cages for the majority of their lives, cramming up to ten birds in the space of an iPad. These archaic cages confine birds so tightly that they can't even stretch out their wings or engage in any of their natural behaviors. As a result of this intensive confinement, hens spend every day in physical and mental agony.
3. Mother pigs are kept in small metal cages known as “gestation crates” for the entirety of their pregnancies. These crates are so tight that the sows cannot stand or turn around for months at a time. As a result of this intensive confinement, these intelligent, sensitive animals suffer from extreme physical and mental distress.

As an alumni at California State University San Marcos, this is unacceptable. The public and college students across the nation deserve better.

We are calling on Sodexo to be transparent with its clients, and the public, about their plans to stop serving food produced with extreme animal cruelty.

Please join us in telling Sodexo to do the right thing and stop serving extreme animal cruelty by signing and sharing this petition.