In Images: Activists in bathrobes and a hen protest Marriott’s broken cage-free egg pledge in Kolkata

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Aug 28, 2025, at 07:25 pm

Activists from the Mercy For Animals India Foundation staged a striking protest outside the Marriott hotel in Kolkata on Thursday, condemning the company’s failure to meet its global pledge of sourcing 100% cage-free eggs by the end of 2025. Photo: Avishek Mitra/IBNS

Dressed in bathrobes, demonstrators stood beside a volunteer costumed as a hen, dramatising the plight of hens confined in battery cages. Photo: Avishek Mitra/IBNS

Protesters carried placards reading “Marriott, Uphold Your Promise: Go Cage-Free” and “Marriott Is Failing on Their Cage-Free Commitment”. Photo: Avishek Mitra/IBNS

Organisers highlighted that around 40 crore hens in India suffer in battery cages as Marriott and other global hotel chains delay their cage-free commitments. Photo: Avishek Mitra/IBNS

“Marriott had 17 years to act but continues to source eggs from cruel, archaic battery cages,” said Kushal Samaddar, Mercy For Animals India Foundation’s organising coordinator. Photo: Avishek Mitra/IBNS

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