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 ...

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 ...

Newly launched advocacy effort Pinas Initiative for Accountability (PIA) has committed to holding multinational corporations ...

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 ...

Ann Lewis raises free-range chickens on her family’s farm in West Suffield. “I would never raise my chickens that way,” Lewis said of the battery cage system.

As of 2012, the use of battery cages is illegal. The new cages give hens more space and must have nest boxes, which animal welfare experts say are key to keeping chickens from stressing out.

Egg industry leaders and animal welfare groups signed an agreement Thursday to support national legislation moving hens out of traditional battery cages within 18 years, abruptly halting cage-free ...

Next month, all of California's 15 million egg-laying hens must be freed from the cramped, restrictive battery cages that have long been used on most egg farms.