cage-free eggs

Compassion in World Farming U.S. has released its latest Egg Track Report, which highlights the evolving landscape of higher-welfare egg production in North America.  While the U.S. continues to lead at about 40% of egg-laying hens now in cage-free systems, Canada trails behind, with less than 19% cage-free.  Co...

Mercy for Animals, an animal welfare group, is releasing video obtained by one of their members posing as a farm employee that they say demonstrates how poorly hens are treated.   A poultry farming expert from Penn State University, Gregory Martin, viewed the footage and said that he saw the footage and it showed that the chickens were being well cared for.  ...