What Does Cage-Free Really Mean For Chickens?
ACRES 
Oct 6, 2016 
ACRES, NGOs 
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WHAT DOES CAGE-FREE REALLY MEAN FOR CHICKENS?
Although cage-free does not mean cruelty-free, cage-free housing implies an improvement of the living conditions of the chickens. They have more freedom to express more of their natural behaviours, including walking, moving around, perching, and laying eggs in nests. These basic needs are denied in the battery cages system.
“Roughly 90 percent of the 280 million chickens in the egg industry are crammed inside barren, wire cages known as battery cages. The size of each cage is about that of your home oven. Inside, six to eight chickens are forced to live their entire year-and-a-half to two-year life—prior to slaughter—with no reprieve from their immobilization.
To understand the level of frustration these birds experience, imagine stepping inside an elevator so packed you can scarcely fit. The doors can hardly close with all the people piled in. After a few seconds, you notice the elevator doesn’t move. At first there’s a bit of awkwardness, then some nervousness, and after several hours, pure panic; people pushing against one another for more space, screaming, crying, bodies bumping up against each other. And that’s it—that’s the rest of your life” states Josh Balk, senior food policy director at the HSUS.
If you want to help egg-laying chickens, the best way is by reducing your consumption of eggs and finding alternatives. But as a consumer who continues to buy eggs, you can also make a difference by asking your local supermarket to sell cage-free eggs, and requesting that your favourite restaurants use them.
Read more here: http://www.alternet.org/food/what-does-cage-free-really-mean-chickens
Cage-free is no utopia. But it’s a much better life for a bird than a battery cage.
Source: http://www.alternet.org/food/what-does-cage-free-really-mean..
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