Hen housing trade offs: Food safety, workers and consumers
Story Date: 7/20/2016

 

Source: Dan Flynn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 7/19/16

As it turns out, the food stores and restaurant chains promising to sell only cage-free eggs by some date in the future and egg producers have been doing their due diligence when it comes to the housing of laying hens.Recently released findings of the Laying Hen Housing Research Project by the Coalition for Sustainable Egg Supply looks at the advantages and disadvantages of three types of hen housing in five areas:

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