Cage-Free Cracked Open with Amber Canavan

About this episode

Amber Canavan discusses PETA's white paper on the inadequacies of cage-free housing systems for hens.

Cage-free eggs are everywhere. They are now available at most every grocery store, a muffin lists cage-free eggs in the ingredients, and a restaurant touts cage-free omelettes on their menu. Is this a win for hens? We crack into this question with Amber Canavan examining PETA’s new document called, “White Paper On the Failure of Cage-Free Housing Systems To Reduce Over All Hen Suffering”. On this episode, Amber shares why PETA released this white paper, how cage-free facilities can actually c...

People in this episode

Host: Hope Bohanec

Guest: Amber Canavan

Topics covered

• cage-free eggs
• animal welfare
• hen suffering
• PETA
• food industry

Keywords

• cage-free
• eggs
• PETA
• hen suffering
• animal welfare

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PETA

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