2024 Cage-Free Fulfillment Report
The Open Wing Alliance releases a new cage-free fulfillment report
As of April 2024, 89% of cage-free egg commitments with deadlines of 2023 or earlier have been fulfilled—leading to hundreds of millions of hens being spared from cages.
Despite significant progress, around 4 billion hens are still confined in cages. Caged systems promote poor physical and mental health in hens: they can’t engage in their natural behaviors, or even spread their wings. Ending this cruelty is what drives our mission forward. Our latest report contains the current status of cage-free egg commitments across the globe—fulfilled, reporting progress, or not reporting any progress up to the end of 2023—broken down by sector, policy deadline year, and country.
Findings indicate that going cage-free is the expectation—not the exception.
This year’s report bodes well for caged hens and socially conscious consumers, with completed cage-free transitions maintaining a high fulfillment rate.
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