What the cluck?

Yuni Kim
News Editor
Thanks to a proactive group of York students and co-operation from the York community, you can expect your side of on-campus eggs to be more ethical and animal-friendly.

“There were a group of students from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) who were involved in a campaign to pressure the university to adopt cage-free eggs,” said Krisna Saravanamuttu, president of the York Federation of Students. “I agreed with them because this is in line with our commitment to be sustainable […] as well as with general feelings of humanitarianism.”
According to the WSPA website, a great majority of the six billion eggs that are produced annually come from caged hens. The hens spend their lives in cages with five to seven other hens with barely enough space to spread their wings, let alone move around.
“To my understanding, Aramark has been using cage-free eggs since the first week of January,” said Saravanamuttu.
York is currently the eighth out of 21 universities in Ontario to switch to cage-free ethical eggs.
In the same article, WSPA urged York students, staff and faculty to send a letter to the Student Centre’s executive director, Scott Jarvis, asking him to make the switch to cage-free eggs as well.