The average laying hen in America has two possible lives laid out in front of her: She can be like 23.6 million hens (8.6 percent of the total egg-laying flock) and grow up in a cage-free facility or ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. They follow an unlikely trailblazer: McDonald’s, which announced in September that it ...

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 ...

Update: The 6-state lawsuit mentioned in this piece has since been thrown out by a U.S. District judge. Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats member. Enjoy unlimited access to our ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Recent social media posts have resurfaced news about a 2019 law requiring that all eggs sold in Oregon be "cage-free," set to take effect in 2024, and at least one Reddit user ...

New research published today in the journal Scientific Reports based on the largest-to-date analysis of commercial data on egg-laying hen mortality finds that mortality in higher-welfare cage-free ...

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 ...