Cramped chicken cages are going away. What comes next?
Story Date: 3/23/2015

 

Source: WUNC, 3/19/15

For the past two years, at an undisclosed location in the Upper Midwest, a large commercial egg farm has been probed with every tool of modern science. Researchers have collected data on feed consumed, eggs produced, rates of chicken death and injury, levels of dust in the air, microbial contamination and dollars spent.

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