Although battery caged hens have been banned since 2022, colony cages - which are much larger but house dozens of hens - are ...

The bird flu outbreak is largely due to the close quarters and poor conditions of farmed animals in factory farming conditions, and to protect ourselves in the future, we must protect chickens, ...

Amid high egg prices and the spread of avian flu, Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary is pushing an industry-friendly agenda ...

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 ...

It’s a reason why eggs over the past few months have become limited in areas and prices significantly inflated, but there are ...

Instead, the government relies on The National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC), an industry-led group without no lawmaking ...

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 ...

The organisation is calling for a ban on all types of cages for egg-laying hens by 2007 ... to sell eggs or egg-based foods from battery systems. "Farm animal welfare is in all our hands, and ...

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 ...