Call for end to 'cruel' battery cages for chickens. Nov. 19, 2011 — -- In the wake of an ABC News investigation into alleged unsanitary and inhumane practices at one of the nation's largest ...

Today Humane World for Animals, formerly called the Humane Society of the United States, delivered more than 195,000 ...

Now, Food Lion has a new promise: by 2032, all eggs will come from cage-free operations. It’s been ten years since its first ...

Hundreds of hens are looking for retirement homes and "a little bit of TLC" after spending their lives in cages, a charity ...

For those of you who don’t know what a battery cage is, chances are that the eggs in your omelet, cake or breakfast sandwich came from one. Over 95 percent of all hens—approximately 250 million—are ...

So while cage-free systems remove many of the inherent cruelties of battery cages, the welfare of the hens inside them hinges on how these facilities, which can range from packed industrial ...

It’s unclear how many of those eggs already come from uncaged hens; battery cages — small wire enclosures whose floors are smaller than a piece of letter-sized paper — are banned in the ...

There are more egg-laying chickens in the U.S. than there are people. Until recently, almost all of those hens have lived in so-called battery cages, which provide each chicken with a floor space ...

Endorsement: Yes on Proposition 12. Let’s get rid of cages for hens for real Cage-free chickens walk in a fenced pasture on the Francis Blake organic farm near Waukon, Iowa on Oct. 21, 2015.

Banning battery cagesThe 280 million egg-laying hens in the United States — and their farmers — are one step closer to having uniform standards for humane housing and care. A group of ...