Thursday to support national legislation moving hens out of traditional battery cages within 18 years, abruptly halting cage-free campaigns in Oregon and Washington. , said was reached because both ...

December 31, 2025, is the deadline that many of the world’s largest food companies set nearly a decade ago to end the cruel confinement of egg-laying hens in battery cages. These companies — giants ...

The NFU has voiced the poultry sector's concerns in its response to the government's consultation on proposals to ban keeping laying hens, pullets and breeder layers in cages.

New research published today in the journal Scientific Reports based on the largest-to-date analysis of commercial data on egg-laying hen mortality finds that mortality in higher-welfare cage-free ...

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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 ...