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Percentage of cage-free hens in the US

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Percentage of cage-free hens in the US

Has increased from <5% to 35% in the last 15 years

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Dec 23, 2022
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Percentage of cage-free hens in the US

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We hear a lot about the bad conditions that factory farmed animals are kept in, and of course there are still many animals in conditions that could be drastically improved.

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But under the general theme of ‘bad but better’, look at the progress that’s been made with cage-free hens in the US, increasing from almost a standing start in 2008 to over 35%.

I particularly like this graph because it’s such a recent success - a lot of the graphs I’ll share here will look at successes over the last 30-60 years, but this one really has seen great strides recently, almost doubling in the last 5 years.

Want more good news for farmed animals? Check out yesterday’s Open Philanthropy's Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter.

Source: https://thehumaneleague.org/article/2023-room-for-funding

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