Who is the Hudson family? The Hudsons, who own Burnbrae Farms, are a multi-generational empire of suffering. Burnbrae Farms is Canada’s largest egg supplier, but most of their eggs still come from hens trapped in miserable wire cages in factory farms—where they endure widespread illness, injuries, and death.
The suffering inflicted on these hens is the Hudson family’s dirty secret. They cover it up with Burnbrae’s glossy packaging, showing grassy fields and a smiling mascot egg.
Burnbrae is notorious for using misleading terms on their egg cartons like “nestlaid” and “enriched colony housing”, which are fancy names for cruel metal cages for hens. Surveys show that Canadian consumers are being misled by Burnbrae’s packaging, falsely believing that these eggs come from hens who live cage-free.
While much of the world is abolishing cages, Canada is moving towards “enriched” battery cages that still condemn hens to a lifetime of suffering. By going completely cage-free, Burnbrae would help move Canada in the right direction and spare countless hens from caged torment.
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It’s time to pull back the curtain on Burnbrae’s deceptive marketing, and the shady Hudson family behind it. The Hudson family is no ordinary family—they run a Dynasty of Cruelty, raking in huge profits for generations by harming hens.
Family members that work at Burnbrae include President Margaret Hudson, Executive Vice Presidents Ian McFall and Ted Hudson, Senior Director of Digital Marketing and Communications Sue Hudson, and Senior Advisor to Corporate Social Responsibility Dr. Helen Anne Hudson.
With Animal Justice’s new Dynasty of Cruelty campaign, we’re raising awareness for the hens who are trapped in miserable, filthy, tiny wire cages by Burnbrae, holding this powerful family accountable for abusing hens, and pushing Burnbrae Farms to finally go cage-free.
Stay tuned for a new collectable card every week, unless Burnbrae commits to ending the use of cages.
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How Hens Suffer in Enriched Cages at Burnbrae Farms
Shocking undercover videos from numerous egg farms across the country show the horrifying conditions hens endure when crammed into tiny wire cages.
In April 2024, Animal Justice conducted the largest-ever egg industry investigation in Canada, at dozens of egg farms in British Columbia and Quebec.
Our footage shows caged hens forced to live in filthy, crowded conditions, both in conventional and enriched battery cages, where the ammonia-filled air burns their skin and eyes. Many hens become sick and injured, while others are weak and defeated. Hens are often missing feathers, and they are frequently forced to live next to the rotting carcasses of their dead cagemates.
Like conventional battery cages, enriched cages are stacked wire enclosures that force birds to live in stressful, close quarters, causing both physical and emotional distress.
Tell Burnbrae to Go Cage-Free
In the US and Europe, companies are moving away from cages entirely, and instead using cage-free housing systems that give hens enough space to walk around, dust bathe, and enjoy other natural behaviours.
Tell Burnbrae that they can’t continue to mislead consumers and force hens to suffer in tiny wire cages. Sign our petition today and ask Canada’s largest egg supplier to go 100 percent cage-free!
