Branding Debeaking News 
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
As of this time, all Trader Joe's brand eggs come only from cage-free hens. Any conventional eggs sold in our stores are in a brand name carton, not under the Trader Joe's label. They are debeaked because that is necessary to keep them from injuring each other." But are they really free-range eggs?
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
Since chickens of the strain raised for meat production aren't typically raised in cages, the label "free roaming chicken" can legally be applied to chickens that were painfully debeaked and then permanently confined in an overcrowded shed with 100,000 other chickens each of whom had 7/10 of a square foot of floor space.
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