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 results are in from a long-running study of three different ways to house egg-laying chickens. It found that more hens survive in cages, and cages are cheaper. But consumers prefer cage-free eggs.

The typical life of an egg-laying chicken is beginning to change dramatically. Ninety percent of the eggs we eat come from chickens that live in long lines of wire cages, about eight birds to a cage.

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

Litigation alone isn’t enough to solve the problem.

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...