AVMA News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Participants completed in-person assessments of the welfare of animals in a variety of scenarios, including laboratory rats, farmed bison, cage-free laying hens, and tortoises in a zoo. The 23rd annual AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest, or AWJAC, took place November 17-19 at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2009

Good news following an investigation of farm animal abuses by Mercy for Animals. Its white eggs, cage-free and organic eggs are not involved. Instead, Eggland's Best says it will get classic brown eggs from other locations.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

As of this time, all Trader Joe's brand eggs come only from cage-free hens. Now customers looking for cage-free eggs need to look no further than the Trader Joe's label. They also offer "Cage Free" eggs. Thanks to their valued feedback, in 2005 we made an important change in our egg selection.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Specifically, if it becomes law the legislation will: • require the nationwide elimination of battery cages—tiny cages that nearly immobilize hundreds of millions of laying hens today; • require environmental enrichments so that birds can engage in important natural behaviors currently denied to them in barren cages, such as perches, nesting boxes, (..)

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