Actor Brad Pitt and host of "Real Time with Bill Maher" Bill Maher are calling for Costco (NASDAQ: COST) to discontinue selling non-cage free eggs. Both activists for Farm Sanctuary, an animal advocacy group, the men have used different outlets to publicly address the wholesalers promise to move aware from caged hens back in 2007. "As you know, these birds producing eggs for your shelves are crammed five or more into cages that are not large enough for even one hen to spread her wings," Pitt wrote in a letter to CEO Craig Jelinick, according to The Huffington Pos. Maher, instead, took to a New York Times editorial to voice his opinion about why Costco needs to make moves into decreasing their amounts of caged eggs sold. "Multiple investigations into battery cages document animals with deteriorated spinal cords, some who have become paralyzed and then mummified in their cages," Maher wrote, according to The Huffington Post. "Imagine cramming five cats or dogs into tiny cages, hundreds of thousands in each shed, for their entire lives. That would warrant cruelty charges, of course. But when the egg industry does it to hens, it's considered business as usual." For more business and financial news, click here.