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Life for Egg-Laying Happy Hens Could Improve With New Housing and Welfare Legislation

Monday, January 30, 2012 23:56

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Currently, an estimated 50 million hens currently live in a mere 48 square inches of space and others in 67 square inches. The legislation would increase space (eventually) to at least 124 square inches of space for white hens and 144 for brown hens.

Life for Egg-Laying Hens Could Improve With New Housing and Welfare Legislation

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HERE Rachel Cernansky Living / Green Food January 25, 2012

The Humane Society of the United States and the industry group United Egg Producers, traditionally adversaries, have come together to push legislation that will require egg producers to improve conditions for egg-laying hens nationwide, replacing the widely-criticized-as-cruel battery cages with enriched colony housing systems and nearly doubling the space allotted for each hen.

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