Sentences with phrase «tiny battery cages»

They should be labeled «cage free» or «free range», indicating the hens were not living in tiny battery cages (about the size of a single piece of paper) all their lives.

This is positive movement for laying hens, since most of the country's 280 million hens are confined in tiny battery cages where they can barely move.

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«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.

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.

They are fed organic food and live in a similar environment to their ancestors, whereas conventionally grown animals can be raised in tiny indoor cages, like battery hens, for example, or pigs in sow stalls or gestation crates, with little or no room to move and no exposure to natural light.

require the nationwide elimination of battery cages — tiny cages that nearly immobilize hundreds of millions of laying hens today;