What Your're Buying

The JournalApril 13, 2007

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Cage (market share 63.3%):

This basically means battery hens that are kept in small cages all their short lives, unable to perch, scratch, preen or move around. They enter the cages as chicks and are "cleared out" after a year to be slaughtered and then either processed into food products or dumped in landfill sites. Generally cage eggs are now classed as 'value eggs' in shops, and are used widely across the catering industry. The EU has issued a ban on all conventional cages by 2012.

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Barn (market share 6.3%):

Hens are kept in...

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