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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Enter Anti SPAM Code: Click here to refresh this page Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by MMOXIEE@aol.com[/i] [br]The Cage-Free Birds Sing hen <https://community.hsus.org/ct/W7acb1n1Ymxl/>With one simple decision, Wild Oats Markets, the third-largest natural foods retailer in the United States with 75 stores in 23 states, has just made life better for countless laying hens who typically live in crowded battery cages no larger than a piece of notebook paper. On Tuesday, Wild Oats announced a new corporate policy against the sale of cage eggs, effective immediately. This historic announcement makes Wild Oats the first national retailer to officially commit exclusively to cage-free eggs for its approved national and regional product lists. The hundreds of millions of hens in battery cages are the most intensively confined animals in the United States. Caged laying hens cannot even stretch their wings, let alone engage in other natural behaviors such as nesting, foraging, perching, and dust bathing. "Demand for improving the welfare of farm animals has never been higher," said Perry Odak, president and CEO of Wild Oats. "We are hopeful that our decision not to approve egg farmers who use caged birds for our national and regional product lists will encourage the egg industry What You Can Do » Thank Wild Oats <https://community.hsus.org/ct/W7acb1n1Ymxl/> for adopting a cage-free policy. » Read more <https://community.hsus.org/ct/b7acb1n1Ymxj/> about this historic decision. to move in the direction of phasing out its use of battery cages, and shifting toward cage-free methods that take the animals' welfare into account." At present, virtually no laws exist in the United States to protect these birds. Egg-laying hens are exempted from the federal Animal Welfare Act and are excluded from the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. Most states' anti-cruelty statutes either explicitly exempt standard agricultural practices—no matter how abusive—or they aren't ever applied to farm animals. Fortunately, with leading companies like Wild Oats taking steps to improve animal welfare, laying hens in the United States are beginning to see their plight improve. And that's why it's important to thank Wild Oats <https://community.hsus.org/ct/W7acb1n1Ymxl/> for leading this important charge. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.