It’d be difficult for Gene Gregory’s defense of battery-cage egg production to be more misleading in Monday’s guest column “Battery cages are good for chickens.” Gregory’s assertions are false or ...

One of the most dramatic changes in the American food production system is now underway in the egg industry. A wave of big restaurants and grocers have committed to switch entirely to cage-free eggs, ...

Mr John Njuguna the director of Renray Poultry Solutions collecting eggs in his farm located in Ruiru, Kiambu County.[FILE,Standard] Most poultry farmers in Kenya are practising the deep-litter system ...

The question, “How much room does a chicken need to lay eggs?” sounds like the start of a bad joke. Animal rights activists and Connecticut’s big-time commercial egg farmers don’t think there’s ...

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