Cage-Free Switch in the Media

In the Saint Paul Pioneer Press article from last Friday, "Cage-Free Eggs on the Menu at the U", we read:

"In a victory for animal-rights activists and chickens, the University of Minnesota has decided to start buying [liquid] eggs solely from companies that don't keep their hens penned in small cages.

Anti-cruelty groups have long considered the "battery" cages used in egg-production operations to be among factory farming's cruelest practices. Chickens have little room to move, they must be 'de-beaked,' and they bruise easily."

Read the full article and send your letters to letters@pioneerpress.com.

The Minnesota Daily featured a front-page article today headlining, "U Switches to Cage-Free", which reads:

"Animal rights activists earned a victory at the University based on some recent measures taken by University Dining Services.

UDS began using cage-free eggs in all its residential dining facilities mid-April as one of more than 150 universities in the country to switch partially or entirely to cage-free eggs..."

Read the full article and please send letters discussing more about the living conditions of battery-caged hens and CAA's important role in this switch to letters@mndaily.com.

Lastly, listen to Sunday's broadcast of Animal Wise Radio on Air America 950AM, in which CAA's campaign coordinator Gil Schwartz is interviewed about the switch. You can [download the segment http://tinyurl.com/35d9c2] and skip to 17 minutes, 15 seconds.