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 ...

A study has revealed an increase in the number of Kenyan farmers rearing chicken in cages even as other countries phase out the system due to human health and animal welfare issues. A report released ...

Many students chow down on scrambled eggs and omelettes in the dining halls every day without thinking twice about where the food comes from. But student members of the University of Georgia animal ...

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 ...

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