Egg producers would have to triple the number of laying hens kept in so-called cage-free housing to make good on their promise to meet demands for restaurant and retail chains by 2025. Only 16.8 ...

Students at the University were asked by Compassionate Action for Animals to pay higher residence hall fees to get the University Dining Service to purchase eggs solely from certified-humane, ...

A Finnish scientist has found that hens actively use the nests and perches found in furnished cages. She also found that hens lay as many eggs in furnished cages as in conventional cages, and that the ...

Many cage-free hens are developing breast or ‘keel’ bone fractures when they misjudge distance between perches UC Davis researchers studying whether birds reared in more complex multi-tiered settings ...

FRESNO, Calif. — The animal welfare advocates that gave egg-laying hens more room in California are trying to expand chicken coops across the nation with an unlikely ally — a group that previously had ...

The hens that produce our eggs are surely the most closely confined, overcrowded and generally miserable animals in America. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 93% of them are ...

There’s no food safety argument to be made for cage-free eggs versus those from chickens in other types of housing, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Nor are cage-free eggs ...

The government is planning to end the use of hen cages as part of a raft of proposals to improve animal welfare standards in England. The measures also include moving away from the use of pig ...

SAN FRANCISCO — California voters are right to think they already weighed in on how big cages should be for egg-laying hens. In 2008, voters ushered in Proposition 2, which sought to free egg-laying ...