It’d be difficult for Gene Gregory’s defense of battery-cage egg production to be more misleading in Monday’s guest column “Battery cages are good for chickens.” Gregory’s assertions are false or ...
The question, “How much room does a chicken need to lay eggs?” sounds like the start of a bad joke. Animal rights activists and Connecticut’s big-time commercial egg farmers don’t think there’s ...
Dame Joanna Lumley has called on the Government to keep its promise to end battery cages for chickens, after undercover footage exposed 'cruelly overcrowded' conditions at a major egg producer. The ...
In the European Union, hens can no longer be kept in tiny battery cages that pack them so tightly they could not walk or flap their wings. The EU voted to ban the cages in 1999 but gave the poultry ...
A new National Farm Animal Care Council code for the care and handling of Canada's laying hens bans new battery cages as of Apr. 1, 2017; the regulations are thanks to an animal rights advocacy ...
Next month, all of California’s 15 million egg-laying hens must be freed from the cramped, restrictive battery cages that have long been used on most egg farms. In the future, they will have enough ...
Banning 'cruel' battery farms may not make chickens' lives any better, controversial research suggests. The study found free-range and barn-reared birds were more prone to cannibalism and deadly ...
This column is in response to Karen Davis’ Dec. 8 letter to the editor and to Jason Ketola’s Dec. 6 column “See the horrors of battery cages.” United Egg Producers is concerned that the information ...
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