Lever Foundation Praises Bakkavor Group for New Global Cage-Free Egg Policy

"As a Group, we are committed to working towards 100% cage-free eggs by 2027, and in the UK, our largest market, we are working with our UK customers towards 100% cage-free eggs by 2025," Bakkavor announced in an updated Environmentally Sustainable Sourcing policy released last week. "As a Group, we are committed to working towards 100% cage-free eggs by 2027, and in the UK, our largest market, we are working with our UK customers towards 100% cage-free eggs by 2025," Bakkavor announced in an...

"As a Group, we are committed to working towards 100% cage-free eggs by 2027, and in the UK, our largest market, we are working with our UK customers towards 100% cage-free eggs by 2025," Bakkavor announced in an updated Environmentally Sustainable Sourcing policy released last week.

Bakkavor's commitment means many own-brand fresh prepared foods at U.K. retailers including Tesco, Morrisons, Co-op, Marks&Spencer, Sainsbury's, Waitrose and Asda, and at U.S. retailers including Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Harris Teeter, and Kroger's Home Chef, will shift to containing only cage-free eggs. In China, fresh prepared foods produced by Bakkavor for clients including KFC, Pizza Hut, Costa Coffee, Starbucks, Aldi and Marks&Spencer will also be shifted to using only cage-free eggs.

"We applaud Bakkavor's new global cage-free egg policy, which will spare tens if not hundreds of thousands of laying hens in China, the U.S. and the U.K. each year from intensive cage confinement while also boosting food safety for customers," said Kirsty Tuxford of Lever Foundation, which worked with Bakkavor on its cage-free commitment.

Bakkavor joins a growing number of food businesses that have made commitments to source only cage-free eggs across their global supply chains, including packaged food manufacturers such as Unilever, Danone, Nestle, Kraft and Mondelez, retailers such as Tesco, Costco, METRO and Aldi, and food service companies such as Aramark, Compass Group and Sodexo.

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