Please Stop Selling Glue Traps
Jospeh Colalillo, Chair and CEO
Wakefern Food Corporation
Elizabeth, NJ 07207
Dear Madam and Sir of Wakefern Foods, especially CEO Mr. Colalillo,
The animal rights organization PETA has asked your company to stop selling a notoriously inhumane product that causes immeasurable animal suffering: glue traps. Glue traps are some of the cruelest pest-control devices on the market today, and you are profiting from them. Animals who get stuck to these boards often suffer for days before they finally succumb to starvation, dehydration, self-mutilation, and shock. Patches of skin, fur, or feathers are torn from their bodies as victims struggle frantically to escape the relentless adhesive. Many animals chew off their own limbs in an effort to free themselves, and others get their noses, mouths, and beaks stuck in the glue and suffocate.
Glue traps do not discriminate. “Nontarget” animals routinely fall prey to these cruel devices. PETA fields calls on a daily basis from distraught customers who have discovered that birds, squirrels, and even their animal companions have become hopelessly stuck in glue traps. When the inevitable occurs and their children, spouses, housemates, or coworkers hear the screams of trapped animals, they often try in vain to release the animals, but it’s impossible, and their efforts cause even more pain and distress. The best thing that can be done for glue trap victims is to find the nearest veterinarian who can euthanize them as soon as possible.
I am sure that caring consumers strongly oppose the use of glue traps and won’t patronize Wakefern until you remove glue traps from all your stores and issue a statement vowing never to sell them again. So please wait no longer and help the animals!
Sincerely,
