In protecting chickens, we protect ourselves from future bird flu outbreaks
The bird flu outbreak is largely due to the close quarters and poor conditions of farmed animals in factory farming ...
Opinion
It’s Weird That Eggs Were Ever Cheap
Although the egg is resistant to slow, evenly distributed pressure, it is vulnerable to sharp, concussive pressure. It has to be. Neonatal chicks weighing a tenth of a pound peck their way out. Just 5 ...
East Valley Tribune9d
Lawmakers aim to undo cage-free hen rules
State lawmakers are moving to undo rules designed for more humane treatment of laying hens based on the claim by its sponsor ...
Labels on colony eggs misleading customers, animal welfare expert says
Although battery caged hens have been banned since 2022, colony cages - which are much larger but house dozens of hens - are still allowed.
Daily Maverick9d
Campaign calls out harmful egg production practices, calls for ethical farming
with 86% of these hens confined in battery cages, unable to live naturally. Now civil society groups are urging key role players in the South African egg industry to reject what they say are ...
BBC9y
Would You Eat an Alien?
Professor Christine Nicol obtained a degree in Zoology from the University of Oxford, and then completed a PhD on the welfare of laying hens housed in battery cages. Her concern for the welfare ...