I only buy eggs that claim to be from free-range chickens, mostly organic. The following web site has a petition to automatically send a message to your members of Congress in support of this federal legislation to end barren battery cage confinement of egg-laying hens.
https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=5123
Currently, at least 92 percent of egg-laying hens in the United States are confined in barren battery cages so small the animals can't even spread their wings. Of these birds, about 210 million are provided 67 square inches of space and 50 million are provided with even less space than that meager amount (typically 48 square inches). In July 2011, The Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers reached a historic agreement whereby both organizations will support—and work together toward enactment of—federal legislation to afford certain protections to all U.S. egg laying hens. If enacted, this would be the first federal law relating to chickens used for food, as well as the first federal law relating to the on-farm treatment of any species of farm animal.
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