When consumers picture farms, oftentimes our thoughts go to idyllic open fields with cows grazing, chickens foraging and pigs rolling around in the mud to cool off. Even if we do picture farms that ...

It’d be difficult for Gene Gregory’s defense of battery-cage egg production to be more misleading in Monday’s guest column “Battery cages are good for chickens.” Gregory’s assertions are false or ...

The question, “How much room does a chicken need to lay eggs?” sounds like the start of a bad joke. Animal rights activists and Connecticut’s big-time commercial egg farmers don’t think there’s ...

EFFORTS by companies producing eggs through the intensive battery-cage system to delay a total ban have been dismissed by the European Commission. EFFORTS by companies producing eggs through the ...

Dame Joanna Lumley has called on the Government to keep its promise to end battery cages for chickens, after undercover footage exposed 'cruelly overcrowded' conditions at a major egg producer. The ...

In the European Union, hens can no longer be kept in tiny battery cages that pack them so tightly they could not walk or flap their wings. The EU voted to ban the cages in 1999 but gave the poultry ...

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. In the future, they will have enough ...

Over 30 million eggs are eaten every day in Britain and more than half of those come from hens that live in cages. A lot of those cages aren't much bigger than an A4 piece of paper. These "battery" ...

This column is in response to Karen Davis’ Dec. 8 letter to the editor and to Jason Ketola’s Dec. 6 column “See the horrors of battery cages.” United Egg Producers is concerned that the information ...