We’ve committed to supporting the market introduction of effective technologies once they are available to our suppliers. While this is standard practice in egg production – and although we use only a small percentage of eggs produced in the market – we’re closely following the development of alternative options to current practices, such as technologies for sexing and raising the hens’ male siblings as a dual-purpose breed. We share concerns about breeders of egg-laying hens eliminating male chicks, following methods that are included in EU Directives and American Veterinary Medical Association guidelines. We will continue to report progress annually on our website. By the end of 2022, 72% of our global egg supply was cage-free. In these markets, we are developing partnerships with NGO’s and/or retailers to promote development of cage-free farms and supply chains. Not all regions where we source eggs have established cage-free supply chains. We’re making progress, but there’s still further to go.
We then committed to extend our cage-free egg commitment to the rest of the world by the end of 2025. We then worked on a similar transition in North America, achieving 100% cage-free at the end of 2020. In Europe, all our brands including Hellmann’s, Amora and Calvé have used 100% cage-free eggs since 2009. The term cage-free represents a better quality of life for the layer-hens, which are instead held in open/open indoor spaces instead of within small cages (battery cages). We were one of the first global companies to work with egg suppliers to start providing cage-free eggs for our products. We’ve long recognised consumer concern around the provenance of eggs. We’ve made significant progress on both, in partnership with our suppliers. It’s also part of our Sustainable Agriculture Code (SAC) (PDF 7.88MB), which we launched in 2010.īased on the volumes we purchase, our major focus has been on sourcing cage-free eggs and on our dairy supply chain.
Farm animal welfare has been a core sustainable agriculture indicator for Unilever for many years.
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