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The Other Side of the Egg Debate

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Hetty Alcuitas, a volunteer with Grassroots Women, said she sympathizes with the environmental and animal-rights arguments against caged chickens. But with battery eggs costing about $2 a dozen and organic free-range eggs costing between $5 and $6 a dozen, the impact of the proposed change goes beyond poultry.

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Consolidation of Egg Industry

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These are not farming families, folks, but corporations as powerful and ruthless as anything on Wall Street. and Canada are actively opposing battery cages. Don't think banks are the only ones gobbling each other up nowadays. So are egg corporations. Thanks to an email from Farmed Animal Net for this information.