Waitrose

112.9 million eggs per year
418137 hens benefited per year

Waitrose, our current Compassionate Supermarket of the Year, has not sold any caged shell eggs for seven years. They also use only free-range eggs in all of their own-brand chilled products.

We want to recognise their ongoing commitment to animal welfare and their policy on eggs by giving them a Good Egg Award and we’ll be working with them to ensure they are cage-free throughout all of their own-brand products by 2012.

To find out more about Waitrose and their eggs visit their website http://www.waitrose.com/

Quentin Clark, Central Buyer Poultry, Fish and Eggs: ‘Waitrose is committed to continual improvements in both animal welfare and the full traceability of raw material used  throughout our stores.  To this end we have a hen that has been specifically bred to thrive in the outdoors.’ 

‘Waitrose is delighted in winning the CIWF Good Egg award.  All credit must go to the Columbian Blacktail farmers and our supplier Stonegate, without whom we would be unable to have made such huge strides in hen welfare.’

‘All Columbian Blacktail farmers are members of the Guild of Columbian Blacktail Farmers and none have cage production on their farms.’