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Radlo Foods Pledging Conversion to Cage-Free Eggs

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Its white eggs, cage-free and organic eggs are not involved. The group's findings have now triggered an investigation by the state's Animal Welfare Program. Instead, Eggland's Best says it will get classic brown eggs from other locations.

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Hope for Hen Welfare

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Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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From Today's New York Times

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To the Editor: Re “ Suddenly, the Hunt Is On for Cage-Free Eggs ” (front page, Aug. Free range” does not solve the problem of painful debeaking, enormously oversized flocks or the unnatural isolation of the birds from other sexes and age groups. All of the male hatchlings are either smothered or ground up alive.