You know the saying, can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs. As in, it’s not possible to achieve something worthwhile without adverse effects or sacrifices elsewhere. We’re talking about ...

McDonald’s buys two billion eggs a year. It’s a huge number. If you laid two billion eggs end to end…you would be a chicken. But now, after years of pressure from animal rights activists, McDonald’s ...

The typical life of an egg-laying chicken is beginning to change dramatically. Ninety percent of the eggs we eat come from chickens that live in long lines of wire cages, about eight birds to a cage.

Lice have been found feeding on the skin and blood of free-range chickens, which are infected at much higher rates than caged flocks. This finding could have implications for states like California, ...

You might think its passage is a major moral victory, at least for chickens, but is it? As a philosophy professor who’s worked on food issues for my entire career, I’ve come to believe that questions ...