More than three-fourths of egg-laying hens live in states with no battery cage regulations, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Battery cages are small wire cages stacked multiple rows high where several chickens are closely confined in each unit, and where most of the nearly 380,000 egg-laying hens in the U.S. spend […]
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