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Cage-free sounds good, but does it mean a better life for chickens?

  • Written by Paul B. Thompson, Professor & W K Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Michigan State University
imageWhat is a good life for an egg-laying hen?

Massachusetts is the latest state to vote on a ballot initiative to increase the amount of space that animals are allowed in industrial food production systems. It prohibits keeping pigs, cows and egg-laying hens in tight confinement that “prevents the animal from lying down, standing up, fully...

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