Do you buy eggs from caged/battery hens?

I don't buy caged/battery produced eggs. Buying battery eggs just maintains the cruel treatment that future hens will go through when the current batch have died. It's about supply and demand. The more that people continue to buy battery eggs the more hens will be reared in this way in the future.

Hens reared in battery conditions live in very unhealthy and stressful conditions. They will die, or be killed eventually as a result of disease/ill-health, so battery farming has nothing to do with maintaining their lives. It just encourages more ill-treatment in the future.

Regardless of whether people eat meat or not, buying free-range eggs is a simple thing that everyone can do to reduce animal cruelty. Some people choose to go further and cut out other products. But every little change helps and if more people bought free-range eggs, the demand for battery eggs would reduce. It is such a simple, but very important change, that everyone can make.

Obviously its down to personal preference but to factors should be bourne in mind when deciding. The quality of life for caged/battery hens and the quality of the egg. Hens generaly produce 1 egg per day and the quality of the egg depends on the health of the hen, with zero exercise and stress factors the hen deals with, it has been shown that a battery hens eggs are typically poorer quality. There is als the ethical issue as well. I myself don't eat battery eggs or chickens for that matter as they are exposed to some of the most appauling conditions.

Im really lucky to have my own hens which run freely around the farm , people are really surprised when they taste my eggs how different they taste and look , I would never buy supermarket eggs again. That picture is awful and the owners should be caged , a happy hen gives a great egg . keep up the good work !!!!!!!!!!!

Wonderful question-I'm starring this one! I am very pro-animals and do all I can to help. If paying a bit extra helps these poor birds then of course everyone should. The conditions they are kept in is appalling. It is barbaric treatment.

I have only ever bought free range eggs and so did my mum when I was young. I get most of my eggs now from a farm.

Well done on highlighting such an important issue, x

First let me say this "Stephen H your an idiot if I were a bloody hen I would rather have my neck wrung than live the way they do, what planet you on, your having a laugh here.

I buy my eggs from a farm, free and running about, thats the hens not the eggs.

The government have put a ban on any battery chicken farming and they have 3 years to convert to free-range. If they don't conform they will receive a heavy fine and be closed down. My eggs are guaranteed free range.

No I don't .It is a cruel outdated practice that should be stopped. Like all things involving animals its about making money.But you should be aware that not all eggs are free range or cruelty free. Just because they have RSPCA on them they are not produced from free hens.

I buy free range eggs and, wherever possible, free range chicken too.

We love to eat meat, but don't see why it should involve cruelty, so we eat a little less, but make sure it's high quality meat from well cared for animals!

Edit - Stephen J what a load of emotive tosh!

No from a supermarket. But more & more supermarket's are giving people a choice in eggs, Like free range eggs.

If you are a part of something!!! that help birds? Do you eat meat,fish or wear leather?

I used to buy battery eggs until i watched a panaroma programe and i was appalled at what i saw

Now it is free range all the way