Animal Welfare - Supermarkets Respond to Consumer Pressure

Just a quick update on animal welfare for chickens. The consumer voice has now got so loud that Sainsbury, Morrisons and the Coop have announced this weekend that they will ban or phase out sales of eggs from caged hens, thus joining Marks and Spencer and Waitrose who have already removed them from sale. ASDA and Tesco are still dragging their feet, but are likely to come under pressure to act soon. The news comes just as Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall start their campaign against intensively farmed chickens. (See blog "Animal Welfare Action" posted here on 6th December).