Turkeys may have it bad, but conventionally raised egg-laying chickens ... fields in long rows of battery cages, which are stacked several tiers high. The small cages hens live in are termed “battery ...

These requirements in effect ban confined cages for livestock, known as battery cages ... only 8 percent of egg-laying hens on cage-free farms. Organic free-range chickens, meanwhile, boasted ...

Michigan grocery stores are getting ready for a big change that takes effect Jan. 1 when all eggs ... of the cages in rows and columns, similar to an artillery battery. The majority of laying ...

Cage-free, Pasture-raised ... and Drug Administration or United States Department of Agriculture. Chickens who lay organic eggs, on the other hand, must be fed organic feed and allowed access ...

Approximately 305 million egg-laying hens live in the United States at any given time. Between 90 and 95 percent of these birds are packed into tiny, barren wire cages that are stacked ... of floor ...

About a dozen demonstrators lined up outside of the Food Lion executive headquarters on Monday to protest parent company ...

With the egg supply already limited, Katie Hobbs wants to avoid further disruptions to egg production that would occur as ...

A group representing Canada's major grocers has committed to buying cage-free eggs by the ... of millions of laying hens and spells the end of the practice of confining chickens in cages for ...

More than one billion chickens are killed annually in the ... and support cruel and outdated systems — such as battery cages for egg-laying hens. “South Africans, including faith communities ...