Hi Carley,
Have you considered reporting the hens/eggs per year handled by the companies which fulfilled their commitments as a fraction of the hens/eggs per year handled by the companies which made commitments? @Carley Betts, a fulfillment rate of 92 % would overestimate progress if companies with more hens/eggs per year fulfill fewer commitments.
Thanks for sharing, Carley! It is great to see such a high fraction of commitments have been fulfilled.
Nitpick. Your numbers for different years would be more comparale if they referred to commitments fulfilled until the same month of different years, like April 2024 and April 2025, or July 2024 and July 2025. You reported 89 % of commitments with deadlines until 2023 were fulfilled until April 2024, and that 92 % of those with deadlines until 2024 were fulfilled until July 2025. I would report the commitments with deadlines until a given year fulfilled until the end of that year, which is the fraction of commitments with a deadline until a given year fulfilled on time.
Thanks so much for reading the report!
Every other year, we published the report in May (catching fulfilment data up to April), but this year we prioritised our work on the world's largest egg investigation. Just FYI, if we had taken fulfilment data from April the rate would have been higher than last year's report too. But since we had to push the report launch back, we didn't want to ignore the following months' data. The change was about workload and nothing to do with the numbers (I know you're not insinuating that, but just want to be clear!). Thanks so much again :)
Thanks for clarifying, Carley!
The Open Wing Alliance 2025 cage-free fulfillment report shows that 92% of cage-free egg commitments with deadlines of 2024 or earlier have been fulfilled, up from 89% last year. The report details a regional breakdown of progress around the world.
Thanks to OWA groups and others for continuing to hold companies around the world accountable for their commitments.
This is great, congrats and thank you to everyone working on ensuring that companies keep their pledges!