Tesco to stop selling caged eggs by 2025
Supermarket giant Tesco is to stop sourcing eggs from caged hens by 2025 following a review of its egg sourcing strategy.
Working with its suppliers, Tesco will transition to 100% cage-free eggs by moving to alternative sourcing methods such as barns, free range and organic.
Matt Simister, Tesco’s commercial director for fresh food, said: “Our decision on caged hens is one of a number of Tesco initiatives designed to ensure sustainable sourcing, and improve animal welfare.
“We carried out an extensive and collaborative review with our suppliers and key industry experts to help us work through how best we can move to 100% cage-free eggs. This will ensure we give our supplier partners the certainty they require, to make the significant and necessary investments needed for the new farming systems.”
At present some 43% of the 1.4 billion eggs sold by Tesco each year come from caged eggs while 57% in the UK come from free range or organic methods.
