--- title: Celebrity: Ryan Gosling Writes Letter to Costco to Sell Cage-Free Eggs description: As a response to the Humane Society's footage of ill-treated chickens in locked cages. canonical: https://time.com/3930969/ryan-gosling-costco-egg-letter/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-22T21:00:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:21.900Z og:title: Ryan Gosling Pens Letter Urging Costco to Sell Cage-Free Eggs og:description: As a response to the Humane Society's footage of ill-treated chickens in locked cages og:url: https://time.com/3930969/ryan-gosling-costco-egg-letter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16b29d930341ff73/698855ac35ba6fa36ec0ddce/ap882040767478-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2903 og:image:height: 1633 og:image:alt: Ryan Gosling at the directorial debut of 'Lost River' in London on April 9, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ryan Gosling Pens Letter Urging Costco to Sell Cage-Free Eggs twitter:description: As a response to the Humane Society's footage of ill-treated chickens in locked cages twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16b29d930341ff73/698855ac35ba6fa36ec0ddce/ap882040767478-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ryan Gosling Pens Letter Urging Costco to Sell Cage-Free Eggs > Sponsored content. 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Less than two weeks after the Humane Society of the United States released [an undercover investigation ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeabWClSZfI)of a major Costco egg supplier—revealing extreme animal mistreatment, including footage of live birds locked in cages with the corpses of their dead cage mates—Gosling [sent a letter ](http://cagefreefuture.com/docs/Ryan%20Gosling%20to%20Costco.pdf)to the C.E.O. of Costco Wholesale Corporation urging the chain to stop using eggs from caged chickens. Citing video footage of “rows upon rows of birds confined in filth-laden cages with the mummified corpses of their cage-mates,” Gosling made no effort to hold back his disgust. “\[I\]t’s appalling that Costco has been selling these eggs with deceptive labeling on cartons featuring graphics of birds living out in a green pasture,” he wrote. “You’re already eliminating cages for veal calves and pigs—don’t you feel that chickens also deserve the same mercy?” Since the Humane Society’s video was released, the footage has received over 200,000 views and over 10,000 people have publicly called for Costco to rethink their egg sources. With the momentum of Gosling’s open letter, the movement will undoubtedly gain further traction. “So many corporations are meeting public demand for more humane products and transparency in the food chain,” Gosling wrote. “I sincerely hope that Costco will set plans now to go completely cage-free for its eggs.” At the end of the letter, the actor penned his signature, and we can’t help but wonder how many girl will cut it out to tape on their walls. _This_ [_article_](http://greatideas.people.com/2015/06/22/ryan-gosling-costco-cage-free-eggs/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3930969/ryan-gosling-costco-egg-letter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3930969/ryan-gosling-costco-egg-letter/"},"headline":"Ryan Gosling Pens Letter Urging Costco to Sell Cage-Free Eggs","datePublished":"2015-06-22T21:00:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:21.900Z","description":"As a response to the Humane Society's footage of ill-treated chickens in locked cages","url":"https://time.com/3930969/ryan-gosling-costco-egg-letter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Costco","celebrity","Ryan Gosling"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16b29d930341ff73/698855ac35ba6fa36ec0ddce/ap882040767478-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maria Yagoda / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16b29d930341ff73/698855ac35ba6fa36ec0ddce/ap882040767478-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ryan Gosling at the directorial debut of 'Lost River' in London on April 9, 2015.","caption":"Ryan Gosling at the directorial debut of 'Lost River' in London on April 9, 2015.","creditText":"Joel Ryan—Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3930969/ryan-gosling-costco-egg-letter/","name":"Ryan Gosling Pens Letter Urging Costco to Sell Cage-Free Eggs"}}]}] ```