London Food Link’s Cage-Free Capital campaign is urging London boroughs and visitor attractions to turn their backs on cruelty by serving only cage-free eggs. The campaign highlights the suffering of caged hens and encourages caterers to switch to cage-free eggs as a first step for improving animal welfare standards within catering.
George Cardwell, Elior's Catering General Manager at the National Maritime Museum with the signed pledge.
The National Maritime Museum receives over 1.5 million visitors annually and Sustain estimates it takes 2,500 hens to produce all the eggs served to their visitors every year. They are one of two dozen London attractions targeted by the campaign through online actions as well as visits to their cafes and restaurants. Collectively these attractions receive 60 million visitors [1], and the campaign estimates they use 30 million eggs every year.
Elior UK is a leading UK catering company, responsible for the food served at stadia, attractions, as well as in care homes and universities. After hundreds of letters from London Food Link supporters, they have agreed to switch their eggs at the National Maritime Museum to cage-free and it is hoped other Elior operations will be encouraged to follow suit.
Among London boroughs, only 17 out of 33 currently source cage-free eggs and the 2015 Good Food for London report will highlight the those taking action later this year.
For more information about the Cage-Free Capital campaign contact:
Sofia Parente
sofia@sustainweb.org
0203 5596 777
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[1] According to the ALVA- Association of Leading Visitor Attractions and annual reports, 24 visitor attractions in London received more than 60 million visitors in 2014: British Museum, The National Gallery, Southbank Centre, Tate Modern, Natural History Museum, Science Museum, V&A, Tower of London, Somerset House, National Portrait Gallery, St Paul's Cathedral, Old Royal Naval College, British Library, National Maritime Museum, Kew, Tate Britain, ZSL London Zoo, Westminster Abbey, Museum of London, Imperial War Museum London, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Royal Albert Hall, Buckingham Palace.
London Food Link: London Food Link brings together community food enterprises and projects that are working to make good food accessible to everyone in London to help create a healthy, sustainable and ethical food system for all.
