Abuse of Animals at Supervalu must be Stopped NOW!

shannon.bennett@albertsons.com, jeff.noddle@supervalu.com, david.l.boehnen@supervalu.com, kdavis@bristolfarms.com

Ms. Shannon Bennett
Mr. Jeff Noddle
Mr. David Boehnen
Mr. Kevin Davis


Dear Executives of Supervalu:

Your company is the nation's third-largest grocery company, with nearly 2,500 stores and several major grocery chains. Despite numerous discussions with PETA, you have thus far refused to take meaningful steps to reduce the suffering of the animals who are abused and killed daily and hourly for your stores. These are some facts about your business of horror:

- Supervalu's pig flesh still comes from suppliers that confine pregnant pigs to metal and cement "gestation crates" so small that the pigs can't even turn around.

- Supervalu’s eggs still come from suppliers that cram hens into tiny wire "battery cages."

- Supervalu's chicken flesh still comes from suppliers that slit live birds' throats and drag them through scalding water.

- Supervalu continues to sell foie gras, a notoriously cruel item produced by cruelly force-feeding ducks in order to induce a painful liver disease; the birds are then killed and their livers are sold as foie gras.

Other major players in the food industry, including your competitors Safeway and Whole Foods, are taking important steps to improve the lives and deaths of the animals used for the flesh and eggs they sell. These — and many other — companies also refuse to sell foie gras, which has been banned in California, Chicago, and 15 nations and condemned by the pope.

Please follow the lead of Whole Foods, Safeway, and others and start improving the lives and deaths of the animals killed for your stores and also stop selling foie gras, that would be phantastic!

Yours sincerely,