Google's employee cafeterias to no longer serve eggs from caged hens

Posted on Thu, May. 11, 2006


Google to serve humane eggs


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - Google's employee cafeterias will no longer serve eggs that come from caged hens.

Google employs roughly 6,000 workers, who eat about 300,000 eggs annually in the cafeterias. Company officials say they want to incorporate social values into food choices.

"We're happy to do it," John Dickman, Google's global food services manager, said Wednesday. "There's a ripple effect that I think will happen. Other companies also will want to ensure humane treatment of animals."

Animal rights groups have pushed companies to make the change, saying six or more hens are confined in a single wire cage in factory farms.

"This is a matter of common decency," said Paul Shapiro, director of the factory-farming campaign at the Humane Society of the United States.