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REPORTER: The Difficult Road to Cage-Free Eggs in the EU
This article was originally featured in the WINTER 2024 Edition of Urner Barry’s Reporter magazine.
With nearly 390 million laying hens in 2022, the European Union is one of the top regions of the world to produce table eggs and egg products. It is also among the first to engage with cage-free regulations, with a deadline of January 2027 for the total disappearance of cages in egg farms. However, since the law was adopted in 2021, we have seen the emergence of global high inflation, a consequence of...