Thursday, Panera Bread announced that it would start using cage-free eggs in all of its restaurants by 2020. With consumers paying more attention to how their food is produced, Panera Bread is the ...

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.

Confidence in consumer demand for free-range eggs is prompting communities to switch to free-range poultry farming. Researchers say poultry keeping through the battery cage method violates animal ...

MILTON-FREEWATER, Ore. — Mahlon Zehr walks carefully down the middle row of his cage-free hen house, clapping his hands to scatter the flock of chickens that gather close around his feet. “They’re ...

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2017 - American egg farmers face more challenges than just building new chicken housing as they convert, as now projected, up to half of their 375 million laying hens from cages to ...

Majority of respondents want to see equivalent animal welfare standards for pork and poultry imported from non-EU countries.

In Lancaster County, Kreider Farms is launching the nation's first-ever Hemp-fed Cage Free Egg. Produced on the company's 3,000-acre farm, the cage-free eggs are a product of chickens hand-fed a ...

FORRESTON, Ill. — Inside a long barn next to rolling fields, Rod Wubbena looked out over 12,000 or so brown hens scratching in the wood chips and fluttering onto perches. The chickens have always been ...