Random Coupons #30
You know you’re a coupon-obsessed loser when your friend tells you your rapper name should be “coup-dog”. You know your friend is an even bigger loser when he says this shortly after ordering a “rooty tooty fresh ‘n fruity” meal from IHOP.
Groceries:
Food Should Taste Good: $1 off any snack, 5oz or larger (must sign up)
Chiquita: $1 off 2 Chiquita frozen fruit smoothies
Ice Mountain: $1 off 2 multi-packs of Ice Mountain spring water (must sign up)
Wheat Thins: $1 off Wheat Thins flatbrad crackers
Burleson’s: $1 off Burleson’s honey, 12 oz or larger (must sign up)
Weight Watchers: $0.75 off Weight Watchers string cheese or cream cheese
Organic Prairie: Save up to $2 on organic prairie meat products
Health & Beauty:
Maybelline: $3 off Pulse Perfection vibrating mascara
Arm & Hammer: $3 off a Spinbrush SONIC toothbrush or $2 off a Pro Series Spinbrush
Restaurants:
Bar-B-Cutie: Free regular BBQ sandwich (Must sign up; limited locations)
Baskin Robbins: $1 off any BR Cappuccino Blast (medium or larger)
Carvel: $2 off a Carvel ice cream cake or roll (must sign up)
IHOP is being asked to begin a phase-out period of battery cage eggs with an introduction of cage-free eggs. Many of their competitors have been able to do it (Burger King, Denny’s, Brueggers, Quizno’s, Wolfgang Puck’s restaurants, Ben and Jerry’s, Hardees, four-hundred universities (the list goes on)). So the question becomes, “why can’t IHOP?”
Consumers are not requesting that much from them, honestly. These are just basic humane standards of care. Cage-free systems offer hens a higher level of animal welfare than do battery cage systems. Making these transitions over time are very reasonable steps in the humane direction.
Unlike battery hens, cage-free hens are able to walk, spread their wings and lay their eggs in nests. It is also extremely practical to still produce the same amount of eggs as would be produced in battery cage systems. Most importantly to the American population, the sanitary conditions are greatly improved in a cage-free system. Alarms should be raised over the severe food safety concerns involved with IHOP’s egg production. In the video of IHOP’s primary supplier, Michael Foods, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4YZt9zFMnY), one can see dying and decomposed chickens laying on the eggs.
Evidence shows there is more Salmonella risk in caged flocks compared to cage-free flocks. In fact, factory farming is considered the reason Salmonella emerged as such a major egg pathogen in the first place.
According to the CDC, eggs now infect 50,000-110,000 Americans every year. Data shows that operations which cram thousands of hens into tiny cages are not surprisingly up to 20 times more likely than cage-free facilities to harbor Salmonella infection.
Please call IHOP at 1-866-444-5144 and politely ask them to begin the phase-out of battery-cage eggs.
Thank you for your time.
-Emily J. Spivak