Ryan Gosling Is an Animal Rights Hero

Taking a page out of Taylor Swift’s Tumblr, yesterday, Ryan Gosling wrote an open letter to Costco imploring the wholesale giant to sell cage-free eggs. Gosling wrote to Craig Jelinek, Costco’s CEO, urging the company to stop buying eggs from suppliers that keep their chickens in cages. He also requested that Costco go completely cage-free. In the letter, Gosling writes, “So many corporations are meeting public demand for more humane products and transparency in the food chain. I sincerely hope that Costco will set plans now to go completely cage-free for its eggs.” Gosling has a long history with advocating for the rights of animals. His activism first drew the public’s eye in 2003, when he wrote a letter to KFC on behalf of PETA. He asked the company to consider more humane ways of raising and slaughtering their chickens so that “these animals are afforded a more humane and less painful existence.” He later released a letter he wrote to McDonald’s arguing for those same initiatives. But Gosling’s concerns are not limited to chickens. He’s advocated for better living conditions for pigs, and in 2013, Gosling launched one of his most aggressive campaigns to date. He wrote a letter to the president of the National Milk Producers Federation urging them to stop the process known as “dehorning,” which is when cattle ranchers remove cows’ horns by burning or sawing them off...more

 Don't dehorn them cattle fellers, and you might consider an underground heifer highway.