{"id":1180364,"date":"2026-02-19T09:21:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/?post_type=feature&p=1180364"},"modified":"2026-03-27T06:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:21:31","slug":"cage-free-white-paper-peta","status":"publish","type":"feature","link":"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/features\/cage-free-white-paper-peta\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarming New PETA Report Shows How \u2018Cage-Free\u2019 Hens Suffer as Much (and More, in Some Ways)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You\u2019re at the grocery store, standing in the egg aisle. Two cartons sit side by side: one plain, one stamped with a \u201ccage-free\u201d label<\/strong>. It\u2019s pricier, but you pick it up anyway because you want to do the right thing for chickens. You want to spare them from the agony of tiny wire cages. But what are you really paying for, and will you relieve suffering or just perpetuate it? That\u2019s the awful question and the surprising answer you will read about in a shocking and impeccably researched new white paper out from PETA headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You are trying to do the right thing and the egg industry knows it. That\u2019s how they dupe you. <\/strong>A new white paper<\/a><\/strong> sets out the case, and a strong case, that industrial \u201ccage-free<\/a>\u201d systems cause many of the same cruelties\u2014and can in some ways add to them<\/strong>\u2014for birds, who despite the fancy labels and pictures of bucolic paradise, still endure crowding, mutilations, injury, chronic stress, transport, and terrifying deaths<\/strong>. And while sensitive birds pay the ultimate price with their lives at the end of their laying usefulness, shoppers are being deceived into paying more for the same cruelty to them along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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