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Dave Rinaldo:
Use your influence to stop extreme animal cruelty

ALDI is authorizing extreme animal abuse

Aldi continues to permit one of the most inhumane factory farming practices in its U.S. supply chain—confining animals in cages for their entire lives. Pigs and hens endure immense suffering because Aldi refuses to implement a meaningful anti-cage policy or provide transparency on any progress away from cages.

As Aldi’s President whose role is to oversee product and sustainability strategies, Dave Rinaldo should use his influence to champion animal welfare reforms. By committing to phase out extreme confinement in Aldi’s supply chain, Rinaldo could help align the brand with consumers’ growing demand for better treatment of animals, ensuring Aldi’s practices reflect the values of its customers and competitors alike.

Email ALDI president, Dave Rinaldo, and demand an end to cages for animals

Interior of a factory farm with a pig biting the bars of her cage.


Aldi’s professed commitment to animal welfare is not just unconvincing but hypocritical, as they continue to condone the cruelest factory farming practices in their US operations. Caging hens and pregnant pigs is an outdated and inhumane practice, and it contradicts Aldi’s own principles.

Dane Charbeneau
Campaigns Manager
Animal Equality

Keep speaking up for animals trapped in cages

Temple Grandin, Associate Professor of Animal Science, Colorado State University.

Gestation crates for pigs are a real problem… Basically, you’re asking a sow to live in an airline seat.
I think it’s something that needs to be phased out.

Temple Grandin
Associate Professor, Department of Animal Science.
Colorado State University
Donald M. Broom, Professor of Animal Welfare. University of Cambridge.

[T]he close confinement of sows in stalls or tethers is one of the most extreme examples of cruelty to an animal. It continues throughout much of life and is much worse than severely beating an animal.

Donald M. Broom
Professor of Animal Welfare.
University of Cambridge
John Webster, Emeritus Professor of Animal Husbandry, University of Bristol.

Confinement of sows during pregnancy, especially in individual stalls or on tethers, can be cold, uncomfortable and injurious, and imposes severe restrictions on natural behaviour.

John Webster
Sr. Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Animal Husbandry and creator of The Five Freedoms.
University of Bristol

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