Eleanor Matsuura

Steve Aoki has penned an open letter with The Walking Dead‘s Eleanor Matsuura calling for the end of Costco‘s sale of caged eggs in Asia. Directed to the grocery chain’s CEO, W. Craig Jelinek, the actress and EDM star state how caged egg sales violate the company’s own animal welfare policy and put Asian customers at risk of food-borne illness. They follow up the second point with links to studies that have shown that caged egg farms have higher rates of salmonella contamination than cage-free facilities. Caged eggs are not sold in their western stores, but are still on sale in Asia. In a segment of the letter shared by Showbiz Cheat Sheet, the two stars state how Asian customers should be treated the same as their western counterparts and that t...