Are cage free eggs really from cage free chickens?!
Are cage free eggs really from cage free chickens?
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Theoretically, yes...the chickens are free to run free in a barn. Free run eggs are from chickens with free run of a farm.
If they say so ~ it must be true. Right?
I think that means that the chicken spends some time out of it's cage every day....it may only be 5 minutes, but it does get a little time outside of a cage.
Not always
You should always research the farm first
Many places claim to be "Cage Free" when they really just keep them in spaces that are Enclosed in the same way a cage is, but not classified as a cage
and others lie
but some are truly Cage free
Yes, the chickens run free and are not cooped up on top of each other and getting covered by their neighbor's feces.
maybe, but they're not necessarily happy, free chickens who peck at grubs outside. the only way you can tell if you're dealing with humanely-treated chickens is to ask the farmer about their living conditions. try a farmer's market or co-op.
Cagefree DOESN'T mean free, and doesnt guarantee that the chickens will ever see the light of day or feel the grass under their feet. What people need to realise that this is a big business, chickens are bred in numbers that would never exist in nature. It is simply not in any companies interest to spend money on fields big enough to let all these chickens out, and let them eat whatever they want. They are still kept in unnutural conditions, with too many animals in one place, not even being able to turn. Some people have this ideal image of "happy meat" and cagefree eggs. But it still means suffering for these animals.
How natural is it to keep an animal under a roof for the rest of their life, just to get to eggs they lay, Which by the way are not ours to take. Chickens dont lay eggs for humans. So if you really care about chickens welfare, the easiest thing you can do is to stop eating them and their eggs.
no cage free eggs, come from a chicken ranch named,..."Cage Free Ranch",..... but the chicken are housed in a very small cage, and never set foot on the ground,.....
How can we really know, maybe a way to make more money . Like organic foods. We really don't know if they are organic or not.
Some bigger companies are looking to cash in on this kind of thing and still cut corners and not follow the organic rules. But for the most part eggs that say cage free came from chickens free in a barn. They can lay their eggs in nests and can exhibit most of their natural behaviours. They do still get their beaks cut off at a lot of farms, to prevent them from hurting each other. So it's not a perfect system but it is better than the battery cages. Change like this comes in little steps, and the bigger demand there is for humanely raised meat and dairy products, the more change we will see.
That depends on your defintion of a cage. Some "cage-free" eggs are produced in rooms where several hundred chickens live and lay eggs in automatically collected nest boxes. Cage-free does not mean they have acces to the outdoors; it means they are not raised in commercial battery cages with wire floors.