Sysco (the company that brings you most of the food you eat) dumps gestation crates
Source: Grist
Sysco (the company that brings you most of the food you eat) dumps gestation crates
By Twilight Greenaway
Photo by Karen 2873.
Sysco the giant, often-invisible food distributor offers 400,000 products to the bulk of the nations restaurants and other institutions. It has a 17.5 percent market share, made $37 billion in sales in 2010 alone, and dispatches a cavalcade of silver trucks daily from 180 locations across the U. S.
In other words, Sysco is wholesale food in America, the same way Cargill is farming and Walmart is, well, all of retail. Or, as Salon put it back in 2009, Sysco has come to monopolize most of what you eat. So when the company changes a policy like it announced it was doing on Monday, when it pledged to do away with meat from pigs raised in gestation crates there is bound to be a striking ripple effect.
In a statement to the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS), the company wrote: Sysco is committed to working with its suppliers to create a gestation crate-free supply system, for the good of all. Like many of our customers, were going to work with our pork suppliers to develop a timeline to achieve this goal.
Read more: http://grist.org/factory-farms/sysco-the-company-that-bring-you-most-of-the-food-you-eat-dumps-gestation-crates/
http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2012/07/sysco_gestation_crates_072312.html
progressoid
(49,999 posts)That is going to cause a ripple effect.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)When or if it does, Sysco will still be a shitty company.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)mother earth
(6,002 posts)K & R for enlightenment for a better and healthier future!
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)Sysco didnt get nice on their own.
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