Eggs, in other words, kill almost as many chickens as chicken meat. Chickens freed from cages, as they have been in California and will be in Utah, aren’t freed from factory farms.

The Justice Department sues to block the Golden State’s cage-free hen mandate.

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 ...

The [chickens] are not in cages, but they're crowded in barns," said Dr. George Saperstein, Professor of Environmental and Population Heath at Tufts' Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Saperstein ...

The lawsuit said California's animal cruelty laws created "unnecessary red tape" in egg production, bringing up prices in the ...

This 2017 photo shows cage-free chickens on a Versova farm in Iowa. ... egg producers are freeing chickens from cages and letting them move throughout hen houses. ...

The Humane Society and the United Egg Producers agreed on an %22enriched colony cage%22 that would allow the birds more space%2C to be phased in gradually. Granted, it's easy to make jokes about ...

What The Rise Of Cage-Free Eggs Means For Chickens. Promises from big food companies to switch to "cage-free" eggs have set off a supply chain reaction among egg producers.

The new year is expected to bring rising chicken egg prices across the U.S. as California starts requiring farmers to house hens in cages with enough space to move around and stretch their wings.

Gov. Kate Brown today signed a bill freeing egg-laying hens from cages. Senate Bill 1019 requires commercial farms with 3,000 or more chickens to go cage-free and prevents the purchase or sale of ...

It's not worth the cost of eggs — cage-free chicken farming, that is. On March 21, Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered a delay in the enforcement of cage-free chicken farming in Arizona in the hopes of ...

Jayson Lusk, who heads the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University, found that after a mandatory shift on Jan. 1 to cage-free in California, the price of a dozen eggs in the state ...