Grocery chain ALDI is hiding a dark secret behind the new label it's plastered onto its store-brand chicken: a massive meat company’s marketing scheme to humanewash, greenwash, and healthwash a grim past of environmental violations, workers’ rights issues, animal cruelty, and discrimination. TAKE ACTION FOR CHICKENS NOW!

This new label, One Health Certified (OHC), is the brainchild of Mountaire, the nation’s sixth largest poultry producer, which applied for the OHC trademark in 2017 and is the sole meat company to have adopted the program. For decades, Mountaire has been cited for environmental violations, and this year, the company finally agreed to a $205 million settlement for allegedly contaminating the drinking water of thousands of Delaware residents. Further, a 2015 undercover investigation revealed birds being violently thrown and punched, as well as sick and injured birds being discarded into piles with the dead.

Now, with its new OHC “certification,” Mountaire is hoping to sweep all of this under the rug. OHC’s paltry standards simply enshrine routine factory farming practices, including permanent indoor confinement in crowded sheds. The genetically modified birds allowed under OHC are bred to grow so large, so quickly, that they often suffer from injuries and heart and lung stress, and many can no longer walk by the time they reach slaughter age. 

By plastering the OHC sticker on its store-brand chicken, which is supplied by Mountaire, grocery giant ALDI is raking in profits from conscientious shoppers. 

As one of the nation’s largest grocery chains, ALDI has a responsibility to its customers to stop concealing Mountaire’s dirty laundry through the OHC label—and to start making real progress. TAKE ACTION TODAY: SIGN THE PETITION.