America's current spike in egg prices has quickly become one of the central public policy issues of early 2025. But while the ...

A Montgomery County-based egg producer agreed Friday to a $287,500 settlement to resolve a federal class-action lawsuit brought by a New York man and a vegan-advocacy nonprofit over alleged false ...

Virtue signaling may be in part to blame for the sky-high price of eggs across the US, with cartons fetching as much as $12 to $15 a dozen in pricey states like California and New York. The ...

Pasture-raised hens aren’t any more immune to bird flu, and their premium eggs aren’t getting cheaper. But these prices have ...

The concern with the cage-free requirements is that only about 121 million of the 304 million chickens laying eggs nationwide are raised on cage-free farms, so the supply is limited. Many of the ...

A Red Star hen, a hybrid breed that lays large brown eggs, sits on eggs inside her coop at Historic Wagner Farm, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Glenview, Ill.Erin Hooley | AP LAS VEGAS — Back when egg ...

The bird flu outbreak is largely due to the close quarters and poor conditions of farmed animals in factory farming ...

State lawmakers are moving to undo rules designed for more humane treatment of laying hens based on the claim by its sponsor ...

The new Senate bill, introduced in February, seeks to repeal the requirement that eggs sold in Michigan be cage-free and ...

Arizona, Rhode Island and Utah also have cage-free laws on the books, but theirs won’t take effect for at least a couple more years. Democratic Assemblymember Howard Watts III, who raises chickens in ...

LAS VEGAS — Back when egg prices remained securely under $2 a dozen in 2021, Nevada joined several other states concerned about animal welfare in requiring cage-free eggs. Now four years later ...