In 2018, Paul J. Brown became the Co-Founder and CEO of Inspire Brands, an international company that owns brands such as Dunkin’, Sonic, Baskin-Robbins, and Arby’s. Prior to becoming Inspire’s CEO, Paul was the CEO of Arby’s. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors at Neiman Marcus Group, a board member at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Tech Foundation, and a Fellow at the Culinary Institute of America. Paul received a bachelor’s degree from Georgia Institute of Technology and a master’s degree from Northwestern University. While he previously had a “focus on innovation,” where is that innovation when it comes to fulfilling his company's cage-free egg promise?
Most importantly, Paul has the power—and ethical responsibility—to end the animal abuse in Inspire’s supply chain. So why won’t he?
In 2021,
Inspire Brands promised consumers it would end the abuse of hens
throughout its global supply chain.
A decision that would impact approximately 2.5 million egg-laying
hens globally each year.
After two years, Inspire has still not publicly reported its
cage-free egg progress in all of its regions. Now, Inspire is at the
center of a global campaign that is gaining attention and support
worldwide. Consumers are outraged and want Inspire to take its
commitment seriously by publicly reporting its global cage-free
progress.
While competitors like
Famous Brands,
Restaurant Brands International, and
Food Delivery Brands
are reporting progress towards—if not already fulfilling—their
commitments to be 100% cage-free globally, Inspire has yet to
publicly report its global progress. Is it reneging on its
commitment? Has it failed to make growth in all regions towards the
goal it set for itself? This lack of accountability and transparency
is unacceptable.
As consumers—as well as Inspire’s own leaders—know, making a
promise is not the same as making good on a promise.
Caged egg-laying hens spend their lives crammed together in barren
wire cages. They cannot dust-bathe or express most of their other
natural behaviors. Often, they suffer from broken bones and mental
anguish. Each hen is unable to even spread her own wings, and she
only has as much space as the size of a sheet of paper within which
to live her entire, miserable life. Inspire Brands claims it is an
achiever and has a “culture of innovation,” so is continuing to support archaic cages really how it hopes to
inspire trust in customers?
Will Paul J. Brown choose to do the right thing and encourage his
fellow leadership to publicly report global progress to end animal
cruelty, or will he continue to ignore the public promise Inspire
Brands made?
Click “Take Action” below to tell Paul J. Brown that consumers
demand transparency and animals deserve better. Now is the time to
demonstrate true leadership by showing the world that Inspire Brands
is committed to upholding its promises and ending the abuse of
animals in its supply chain.