These chickens live near Modesto, California, home to some of your favorite folks, in cages twice as spacious as those that are standard in the egg farming industry.
There will be more of these spacious cages if Gene Gregory, president of the United Egg Producers, which represents America’s egg farmers, and Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, have anything to say about it. These unlikely allies are lobbying Congress for a law that would allow farmers to keep their chickens in cages, but require that the chickens get twice as much space, plus perches and “nest boxes” where they could lay their eggs.
Seeing animals in cages still gives me sad face. (Hat tip: Jami Attenberg.) I’ll stick to eggs and chicken bits from free-range facilities. But until we can make free-range chicken and their eggs affordable for everyone, I salute the “spacious cage” approach.
