BiteSizeVegan.org | What Does Cage-Free Eggs Mean? @BiteSizeVegan | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
What does "cage-free" eggs mean? In the simplest terms, cage-free eggs means exactly what it sounds like: laying hens are never caged. But the simplicity of this label ends there.
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This video provides an overview of the label "cage-free" eggs. What's the difference between cage-free eggs and regular eggs? Are cage-free eggs more humane? Get the full cage-free eggs definition!

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Chapter markers for navigation:
00:00 Introduction
01:15 How most hens live: battery cages
02:17 Battery cage bans: not what you may think
03:50 What does cage-free mean?
05:40 What's wrong with cage-free eggs?
05:44 Overcrowding
06:04 Mass killing of male chicks
06:28 Debeaking
06:47 Light manipulation
07:07 Forced molting (starvation)
07:49 Hens are killed when no longer "profitable"
08:05 Reduced air quality and particulate pollution
08:43 Do more hens die in cage-free facilities?
09:20 Is a decline in mortality a reason for hope?
11:20 When the solutions are the problems
12:26 The bottom line on cage-free eggs

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