Sentences with phrase «caged hens»

Phase - out to be completed 30 years after McDonald's accepted statement of humane principles OAK BROOK, Illinois ---- The McDonald's restaurant chain, buyer of more than two billion eggs per year, 4 % of total U.S. egg production, on September 9, 2015 announced that it will phase out use of eggs from caged hens over the next -LSB-...]

The following is a traditional English breakfast with white bread, nitrate - filled ham slices, baked beans from a can (laden with sugar), eggs (I'm sure from caged hens), and a highly processed sausage link.

Chickens dust - bathe so devotedly that caged hens sometimes act out «sham» baths on the floors of their cages, without any dust.

Caged hens also suffer from the denial of many natural behaviors such as nesting, perching, and dustbathing, all important for hen welfare.

Half of all eggs produced in Britain come from caged hens.

Close confinement systems, including farrowing crates and caged hens, are not used and stocking densities are lower than average across the supply chain.

In 2007, Washington - based Burgerville became the first restaurant chain to stop using eggs from caged hens.

Cage - free hens generally have two to three times more space per bird than caged hens.

Wendy's advancement is a sharp contrast to McDonald's policy of using eggs only from caged hens in the United States.

The Humane Society of the United States applauded San Leandro, Calif. - based snack food giant Otis Spunkmeyer for joining the national movement away from eggs from caged hens.

And Whole Foods grocery chain hasn't sold eggs from caged hens in more than ten years.

All eggs from caged hens will be removed from the shelves of Woolworths over five years as the supermarket responds to growing consumer demand to address animal welfare, the supermarket chain will announce on Friday.

For example, McDonald's continues to use nearly exclusively eggs from caged hens in the U.S., while Burger King, Starbucks, and so many others have pledged to use only cage - free eggs.

Not exact matches

For the past 10 years, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has focused on bringing an end to the confinement of farm animals, mainly pigs and young cows (future veal) who are kept in crates without room to turn around, and the egg - laying hens kept in cages too small to spread their wings.

Cage - free systems give hens more room to move around but also result in higher feed costs, lower egg production per bird, increased cannibalism among the flock and greater vulnerability to diseases, according to a report by agricultural consultant Promar International.

-- More than 100 big brands, from Walmart to McDonalds, committing to phasing out battery cages for egg - laying hens over the next 3 to 10 years.

The movement toward improving living standards for chickens builds on the cage - free eggs trend, which led to a slew of restaurant chains and grocery stores in recent years promising to ditch cages to improve the lives of hens.

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.

And McDonald's, in a watershed moment, announced that all of the eggs it uses will come from cage - free farms — freeing an estimated 8 million hens a year from tight confinement when the policy is fully implemented.

A friend of mine, a straight hillbilly type from Arkansas who raised show pigeons, claimed he used to «have no use for qu ee rs», until he ran across several c0c ks and hens that wouldn't mate and then put them in the same cage because he didn't know what else to do with them, and then they started mating rituals with the same $ ex.

This consideration renders the battery cage system for hens as immoral.

Deb El prides itself on being ahead of the curve with specialty products, such as eggs from cage - free hens.

It will hold up to 120,000 hens, about 80,000 fewer birds than a same - size barn using the traditional caged system.

Stiebrs Farms became one of the first farms in the country to offer cage - free eggs, and today the company continues to retrofit its old barns to accommodate more cage - free hens.

The colony - enriched housing system encloses a group of hens in cages that measure approximately 12 feet by 6 feet and are about 2 feet high.

The company says 34,000 mother pigs will no longer be kept in stalls for long periods of their lives and 350,000 hens will be freed from cages.

Animals Australia says laws now allow battery hens to be packed into cages where they can not stretch their wings; mother pigs can be caged barely able to move for months on end; and chickens raised for meat have been bred to grow at three times their natural rate, causing health problems.

The HSUS has officially withdrawn a ballot initiative petition on the same subject, which would have also phased out the confinement of egg - laying hens in battery cages.

Battery farms consist of huge, windowless sheds housing thousands of hens who are crammed four or five at a time into small wire cages stacked on top of each other in rows.

And while cage - free does give hens significantly more room than the battery cages being abandoned, it's not a guarantee the animals will ever see the outdoors.

«In 2005, in response to valuable customer feedback, we made a change to have all Trader Joe's brand eggs come only from cage - free hens,» the company said.

«The Humane Society of the United States applauds Sara Lee for improving the lives of thousands of hens each year with its cage - free egg commitment,» said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS.

Unable even to spread their wings, caged laying hens are among the most intensively confined animals in agribusiness.

The vast majority of egg - laying hens in the United States are confined in battery cages.

Restricting hens to these barren battery cages prevents them from perching, nesting, foraging and even spreading their wings.

Since this is impossible in crowded battery cages, hens go through long periods of frustration.

Each hen has 0.46 square feet (67 square inches) of cage space: smaller than a sheet of paper.

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.

Researchers say the cruelest thing about battery cages is that they prevent hens from following their instincts when laying eggs.

California and Michigan have passed laws to outlaw the cage confinement of hens, and California passed a law requiring all whole eggs used in the state to be cage - free by 2015.

The company plans to start its conversion by phasing more than a million cage - free eggs into its products, sparing nearly 4,000 birds each year from being crammed inside tiny cages that provide each hen less space than a sheet of paper to spend her entire life.

HSUS undercover investigators have exposed the suffering of hens in battery cages on factory farms run by many of the nation's egg companies, including Cal - Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, Rose Acre and Rembrandt Foods, the second - and third - largest egg producers, Kreider Farms and Costco supplier Hillandale Farms.

«By starting to use eggs from hens not confined in cruel battery cages and pork from pigs not crammed into tiny gestation crates, Sonic has taken an important first step forward for animal welfare,» said Paul Shapiro, senior director of The HSUS» factory farming campaign.

This year alone, there will be 15 million fewer egg - laying hens in battery cages, and by 2025, nearly all of the laying hens in the U.S. will be raised cage - free.

From 2005 on, The HSUS has worked to end the confinement of hens in battery cages.

Michael C. Appleby, Do Hens Suffer in Battery Cages?

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.

Most eggs are produced by hens raised in battery cages, which are so cramped they force the animals into unhealthy behaviors.

It's been a most victorious year for egg - laying hens — at least, the ones who will be laying eggs in 2025 — the deadline set by most major supermarkets and leading fast food chains including McDonald's, to transition away from tiny and cramped battery cages, the egg industry norm for more than a half - century.