Costco popular rotisserie chickens can soon skyrocket for this reason
Some COSTCO members require a better treatment of the 100 million chickens than the big-box sells each year.
AllCostco The hon. Member knows that the superstore of the grocery store makes it convenient to feed their families. There are few items Costcoquite Also convenient as Costcoroast chicken, which for years has brought the price label notoriously affordable of $ 4.99. But now, as suggests an imminent increase in the price of the chicken from the Costco roaster, some Costco Shoppers-as well as animal welfare lawyers - are demanding that the store had to use the probable profit margin to revise their practices of the Supply Chain. Indeed, some Costco customers have heard that COSTCO chickens sells sellers are not treated very kindly.
In February, theNew York Times Published an opinion piece of Nicholas Kristof colonomy, which shared the conclusions of a survey under cover of a Nebraska farm where Costco chickens are high. The investigator, affiliated with the Animal Animal Rights Group, said that he had discovered thousands of chickens living in "a warm wet cloud of ammonia and coca mixed together" in restricted neighborhoods.
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Kristof noted that these conditions are just one aspect of how grocery suppliers like Costco, Walmart and others treat their chickens. Some chickens are also aggressively nourished and disproportionate - Kristof wrote:
"The newspaperPoultry science Once calculated only if humans have increased at the same pace as these chickens, a 2-month-old baby weighed 660 pounds. Chickens grow huge tits, because what the consumers of meat want, so that the legs of the birds sometimes move or collapse. "
Kristof also mentioned that Costco sells 100 million chickens each year, less than five dollars. Past reports suggested that Costco really sells these chickens to a loss of $ 40 million a year - according toThe Daily meal, Costco holds chickens at this price point because "low-cost meal retains happy members and high foot traffic."
Today, it looks like all COSTCO members are actually satisfied with this alleged inhuman treatment of chickens in the costco supply chain. AsCNBC andInternal business community Reported in recent months that Costco frameworks have suggested how expensive it is for Costco to offer rotisserie chickens for $ 4.99 and that the mega-grocery store boastedRecord sales growth In recent months, while Costco executives make heavy salaries with seven-digit (CEO Craig Jelinek would have earned $ 8 million a year) - COSTCO members recognize the impact that their purchases can have on millions of animals.
The Group of Animal Rights, the Human League, told us that a member of the Costco in the domestic base of the Seattle supermarket began his ownpetition, which has more than 124,000 signatures (and growing). A contact to the League Humane said that this member plans to file his petition signatures at Costco Headquarters in person on Monday.
In addition, from yesterday, a mobile billboard containing images of mercy for animal surveys would have started to make its tricks throughout Seattle. Our source of human league has told us that a protest should also take place on a Seattle Costco on Sunday.
Costco has taken a responsible position on social issues in the past when some products that has been transported have seen controversy (such asThis cheese,This coconut milk, and eventhese eggs) Now, organizations agree to do the same with the Costco-Brand Kirkland Rotisserie chickens. The reports of the human league: "Hundreds of companies including entire foods have adopted the main set of chicken protection standards,The best chicken commitment. We expect COSTCO to plan to do the same thing, as they should. "
We contacted a representative in Costco, who refused to comment.
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