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Many people, including myself, would not eat a battery hen egg if we could help it, and there is a growing market for free-range eggs.
These include health and welfare issues related respectively to reduced dependence on antibiotics and pesticides and free-range husbandry systems.
One of my constituents wanted to put up a free-range poultry unit, and had great trouble.
It is therefore not possible to comment on either battery or free-range eggs as a source.
On average, a free-range hen will produce 140 eggs per year.
Did you say that 66% of production is now free-range?
An example of this is the segregation measures, which are restrictive for small free-range poultry holdings.
There is in fact a powerful desire among consumers for free-range poultry farming of various kinds.
