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 ...
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 ...
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Campaign calls out harmful egg production practices, calls for ethical farming
Civil society groups are urging key role players in the South African egg industry to reject what they say are ‘cruel and unsustainable systems, such as battery cages, and to make independent, ethical ...
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 ...
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Nearly half of Scots don't know how to make pancakes from scratch
In the UK, around eight million hens, 20 percent of ... Regional Farm Assessment Manager for Scotland at RSPCA Assured. “The old battery cage was banned in Europe in 2012, but many were just ...
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Egg shortages to continue as bird flu leads to loss of 10 per cent of Australian laying hens
Australia has lost more than 10 per cent of its laying hens to bird flu in the last ... Woolworths and Aldi have pledged to phase out or ban battery cages from their supply chains by this year.