Articles by PJ Nyman
What Are Agricultural Front Groups? How Big Ag Hides Factory Farming
The Canadian animal agriculture industry is facing a public relations crisis. Instead of improving animal welfare, industry is using agricultural front groups to paint a deceptive picture of what goes on behind barn doors.
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Sobeys Protests: Canadians Demand a Cage-Free Plan
Sobeys is weeks away from breaking its decade-old cage-free promise. Protesters across 10 cities demand a cage-free plan.
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PR Tactics from Big Tobacco: How Sobeys Justifies Cage Cruelty
Sobeys’ talk of “consumer choice” isn’t about empowering shoppers—it’s a Big Tobacco–style PR tactic to excuse cage cruelty and disguise a broken promise to go cage-free.
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Corporate Cage-Free Campaigns: Why We Do Them & Our Approach
These campaigns create positive change over time, easing millions of animals’ suffering, exposing the cruelty of factory farming, and promoting a more compassionate future.
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Sobeys Caged Eggs: Nationwide Protests Call for Cage-Free Plan
Demonstrations in nine Canadian cities ramp up pressure on grocery giant Sobeys to help caged hens—marking what is quickly becoming the largest corporate cage-free campaign in Canadian history.
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Sobeys’ Caged Hens in the Spotlight at National Gallery of Canada
Over an elegant backdrop of the Sobey Art Award Exhibition, advocates unveiled a hidden truth: Sobeys is still under investigation for cage cruelty, and the company has yet to publish a plan to make cage-free progress.
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Sobeys’ Caged Hens: A Month of Action
With every new release and public action, we are drawing attention to Sobeys’ empty animal welfare claims and sending a clear message that cage cruelty has no place in Canadian grocery stores.
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Animal Justice Exposes Sobeys’ Caged Hens at Tennis Finals
Animal Justice calls out Sobeys at the National Bank Open over its broken cage-free egg promise and the continued sale of eggs from caged hens.
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CEO Michael Medline: Be a Hero For Hens & Make Sobeys Cage-Free!
Over 80 percent of Sobeys’ eggs still come from hens who suffered in cages.
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Suffering in the Supermarket: Weston Family Richer than the King While Abandoning Caged Hens
This highlights a disturbing trend: immense corporate wealth built at the expense of animal welfare.
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Grocery Giants Let Big Ag Abandon Millions of Caged Hens
Canada’s biggest grocers promised to go cage-free by 2025—but they’ve backtracked. Millions of caged hens are still suffering, and industry pressure is stalling progress.
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