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, ...

Layer hens typically are housed in sheds the lengths of football fields in long rows of battery cages, which are stacked several tiers high. The small cages hens live in are termed “battery cages.” A ...

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

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

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

The organisation is calling for a ban on all types of cages for egg-laying hens by 2007. A new European directive will outlaw battery cages throughout Europe from 2012. However, the law still ...

Professor Christine Nicol obtained a degree in Zoology from the University of Oxford, and then completed a PhD on the welfare of laying hens housed in battery cages. Her concern for the welfare ...

with 86% of these hens confined in battery cages, unable to live naturally. Now civil society groups are urging key role players in the South African egg industry to reject what they say are ...

The commitment to raising egg-laying hens in a humane manner is a further ... conventional housing within eight years, with battery cages gone by 2036. The grocers' commitment will likely push ...