Sentences with phrase «cramped battery cages»

Since Proposition 2's passage, Wendy's has vowed that at least 2 percent of its eggs will be from cage - free hens, and McDonald's Corp. announced last week they are working with scientists, egg producers and academics to study alternatives to cramped battery cages.

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.

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.

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