Hey, if Taylor Swift can come to the aide of indie musicians with an open letter, Ryan Gosling should be able to give chickens a better life. The one that certain chickens are living right now is abhorrent.
According to Uproxx, Costco has already done away with caging their pigs and their veal, and Gosling is now on a quest to get better conditions for the store's egg-laying hens. Given the description of what he saw in the footage, it's with good reason that the actor issued the below letter:
"Video footage revealed abhorrent cruelty including rows upon rows of birds confined in filth-laden cages with the mummified corpses of their cage-mates - eating, sleeping, defecating, and laying eggs on top of dead birds - and hens’ wings, legs, and necks trapped in the corroded wires of their battery cages. [I]t is appalling that Costco has been selling these eggs with deceptive labeling on cartons featuring graphics of birds living out in a green pasture. You're already eliminating cages for veal calves and pigs - don’t you feel that chickens also deserve the same mercy?"
The footage which motivated PETA activist Gosling to write the letter is below. WARNING: it is graphic and obviously upsetting, but it is an education.
