«It is unacceptable that after the ban on
battery cages comes into effect, around 50 million hens across Europe will still remain in poor conditions.
Not exact matches
The leading international food and beverage company has committed that more than one million of the eggs it uses each year will not
come from hens crammed into
battery cages, which provide each bird less space than a single sheet of paper on which to spend her entire life.
As part of its new animal welfare policy, the SUBWAY ® chain will ensure that, to start, 4 percent of the eggs used for its breakfast menu nationwide do not
come from hens crammed into
battery cages.
The leading international food and beverage company has committed that more than one million of the eggs it uses each year will not
come from hens crammed into
battery cages, which provide each bird less space than a single sheet of paper on which to spend her entire life.
In 2008, the company began switching millions of eggs to
cage - free eggs — those that do not
come from hens kept in notoriously cramped
battery cages.
While that's ambiguous in the brief mention here, it's clear in his talk that he means this only as the cost for sparing a hen the additional suffering that
comes with
battery cage production systems, and that the animals affected will still suffer in other ways and be killed earlier than their natural lifespan.