Sentences with phrase «than the battery cages»

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.

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-- 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 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.

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.

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.

But instead of reassessing their practices, the industry is vehemently defending the system — a system that confines 12 million egg laying hens in battery cages; forces thousands of mother pigs to give birth and live for weeks on end in crates barely bigger than their bodies; allows piglets to have their teeth cut and tails cut off without pain relief; and subjects «meat» chickens to such rapid growth that their bodies can barely sustain them.

Renault says that's enough to propel the pint - size two - seater, which employs a carbon - fibre body and Kevlar - protected steel roll cage to reduce the kerb weight to 1400 kg (including 450 kg for the 40kWh battery), to 100kmh in a supercar - like 3.2 seconds, and on to 130mph (210km / h) in less than 10 seconds.

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.

Egg hens live in battery cages, wire enclosures no bigger than an i - pad where up to 10 birds are held together... anyone with claustrophobia can sympathize with this maddening experience.