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 ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Poultry farmer Peter Kimani feeds his hens at Wakio farm. [David Njaaga, Standard] Egg production farming is a ...

Robert Procaccianti is a Narragansett resident and vice chair of the board of directors of Farm Sanctuary, a farm animal sanctuary and advocacy organization. Lawmakers took a big step back this year ...

The really rather surprising result of this experiment was the lack of demonstrated preference for either the [barren] pen or the [barren] battery cages. ... Once reason why a preference was not ...

The price of eggs is ever-present in the collective American mind and has been for quite some time. As H5N1 influenza (more commonly known as “bird flu”) rages across the country, already inflated egg ...

A new kind of freedom is on the horizon, for the hens of Arizona. If an industry-backed bill passes the Legislature, the state could ban the sale of all eggs laid by confined or caged hens, starting ...

Bernadette just turned 10 years old. Last year she laid three eggs, an amazing amount given that she is, in human years, a centenarian. For the past decade, I’ve kept backyard hens, which supply me ...

On Saturday, Nov. 9, several North Carolina Animal Advocates United members gathered outside the Crumbl Cookies location on Franklin Street to protest the bakery's use of battery cages in egg ...

Many of the Danish organic henhouses are breeding big animal welfare problems. Poor food, illness, lack of medicines, the extraction of feathers, cannibalism and stress are all factors that contribute ...

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 ...

Egg production farming is a lucrative business in Kenya. The industry has a population of 5.58 million commercial laying flocks producing about 1.6 billion eggs annually, according to the 2019 census ...