Egg production farming is a lucrative business in Kenya. The industry has a population of 5.58 million commercial laying flocks producing about 1.6 billion eggs annually, according to the 2019 census ...

The question, “How much room does a chicken need to lay eggs?” sounds like the start of a bad joke. Animal rights activists and Connecticut’s big-time commercial egg farmers don’t think there’s ...

NAIROBI: The battery system of poultry keeping was a result of the mid-20th Century industrialisation of farming that revolutionalised egg production to meet the ever increasing market demand for eggs ...

There are more egg-laying chickens in the U.S. than there are people. Until recently, almost all of those hens have lived in so-called battery cages, which provide each chicken with a floor space ...

SARANAC -- A good portion of the four million eggs produced daily at Herbruck's Poultry Ranch end up in Egg McMuffins, Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddles or some other McDonald's menu item. So company ...

Call for end to 'cruel' battery cages for chickens. Nov. 19, 2011 — -- In the wake of an ABC News investigation into alleged unsanitary and inhumane practices at one of the nation's largest egg ...

In the European Union, hens can no longer be kept in tiny battery cages that pack them so tightly they could not walk or flap their wings. The EU voted to ban the cages in 1999 but gave the poultry ...

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Clive Phillips consults to Voiceless as a member of their Scientific Committee and is on the Board of Minding Animals. He has received funding from ASEAN for the development of poultry standards for ...