Food
Your Eggs Probably Aren’t Cage-Free
Only 27% of food, restaurant and hospitality companies that promised to switch say they’re any closer to the goal.
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For some time, it seemed like the plight of egg-laying hens—confined to cages so small they can’t even spread their wings—was ending. Restaurants, retailers, hotels and manufacturers, as well as food service and hospitality groups, suddenly recognized that consumer revulsion might cost them real money. So they rushed to announce self-imposed deadlines to go cage-free.
But one animal welfare group monitoring whether companies are fulfilling their pledges has discovered that the large majority of producers and sellers of egg products that promised to go cage-free declined to say whether they’d made any progress.