Hugh’s Chicken Out Campaign in Trouble
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall needs to raise £86,000 – his latest efforts in the on-going Chicken Out Campaign have resulted in a huge bill from Tesco’s.
A few weeks ago I submitted a resolution to Tesco plc with the support of 102 shareholders representing some 3.7 million ordinary shares. The resolution challenges Tesco’s claims about poultry welfare, and urges them to set new minimum welfare standards, including lower stocking densities and more environmental stimuli for the birds.
Now Tesco have told me that they will only take our resolution to the AGM if I meet the cost of distributing the relevant papers to their shareholders. They are entitled to waive this fee, and we have requested that they do so, in the interest of shareholder democracy, but they have declined. In other words, the resolution is dead in the water unless I pay them £86,888 to print and post the papers out to all 269,000 Tesco shareholders.
In an attempt to raise the money – he has put £30,000 of his own cash into the fund – he has put together a bespoke selection of top notch prizes which will be auctioned over the next couple of days. While you can donate directly it will be more fun to bid on the five different prizes.
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