Will Burnaby Chicken Out?

Filed under: Uncategorized, Animal Rescue Alert!, More by Diane Haynes — Diane at 7:57 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Three BC cities have passed resolutions banning the use of battery-cage eggs in city-run facilities and events. I am sorry to say my home city of Burnaby is not yet one of them. Come on, Burnaby, what are we waiting for?

It’s time. Chickens before “cheep” egg prices. In other words, let’s put the chicken before the egg.
Click here to read my column in the October 10 issue of the Burnaby NOW, and then, if you live in Burnaby, email our Mayor [mayor.corrigan@burnaby.ca] with your thoughts. If you live elsewhere and think a resolution to use cage-free eggs is a good idea, then write your mayor and say so.

These kinds of changes are happening because individual citizens are taking the time — five minutes, at most — to make their voices heard on behalf of animals.

It’s time. You can do it — go talk to your Mayor. And let me know how it goes.

Click on the links below to learn more about:

Chicken Out! Initiative

Vancouver Humane Society

City of Richmond Resolution to Use Cage-Free Eggs May 29

City of Vancouver Resolution July 26

City of Whistler Resolution September 5

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Comment by Cam

October 12, 2007 @ 4:59 pm

Ever since we discovered REAL eggs( the ones with the bright orange yolks), we did not really know what eggs were. We buy free-range eggs and have told all our friends, as well as werve them any time we can to point the difference out. As you say: they cost more, but they taste better. Years ago, when I was working for a publication on Hhastings Street, the “egg trucks” would pass every morning,with all these poor chickens crushed in the cages. We feel the same way about buying these pale eggs now as we do about buying veal–NO MORE.

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