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Cage-Free. As the label implies, the hens that produce cage-free eggs, do indeed live outside of cages.However, that does not mean that they have room to roam around. "They are often kept indoors ...
Remember, $3.65 is just an average. According to the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), the wholesale price for a carton of large eggs on the New York market rose to $6.06 a dozen.The ...
Behind rising egg prices and shortages is a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), known as H5N1, that killed 13.2 million commercial egg-laying hens in the month of December alone ...
The California legislature in 2010 passed AB 1437, which required all shell eggs sold in the state to meet the same requirements, including those produced elsewhere. Proposition 12 closed loopholes in these laws by requiring the same for all eggs sold in the state, regardless of the form it was sold in (i.e. both shell eggs and liquid eggs ...
Commercial free-range hens outdoors Commercial free-range hens indoors. Cage-free eggs have been a major cause of debate in the US. In 2015, there was an initiative proposed in Massachusetts that would ban the sale of in-state meat or eggs "from caged animals raised anywhere in the nation".
[4] [5] The California Department of Public Health has compiled a list of "low-risk" foods, which are approved for a CFO to produce, prepare, package, and peddle to customers out of their "private home". A CFO is limited to producing and selling foods found on this list. A "private home" can be either owned or rented by the operator of the CFO ...
The American Egg Board in a statement said "in the U.S. we’ve lost nearly 50 million laying hens in the past year to bird flu." “The reality is the system for egg production is both complex ...
Signage notes a limit due to limited quantities of eggs at a grocery store in Manhattan Beach, Calif., on Jan. 2, 2025. Bird flu and other factors have contributed to an egg shortage in California.