On June 28, 2007 members of Mercy For Animals held a silent protest outside the Kroger shareholders meeting in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.

MFA members displayed signs that declared “Kroger Tortures Animals,” and depicted startling images of egg-laying hens crammed in tiny wire cages, mother pigs locked in narrow stalls, and a bloody chicken inside a slaughterhouse.

Kroger executives have failed to implement any meaningful welfare standards for the animals raised and killed for its stores. Though Kroger claims to care about animal issues, and states it follows industry standards, suppliers for the chain continue to subject millions of animals to shocking cruelty on factory farms and inside slaughterhouses.

Click here to read the news release for this event.