From the commentary, "I can afford to take my family of four to Waffle House for a two-egg breakfast, side of bacon. With tip ...

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Cramming hens into tiny cages so small they can barely move is inhumane and increases the risk of salmonella, which can be deadly. The Center for Food Safety has endorsed cage-free egg production as a ...

The policy comes as some U.S. farmers have been forced to euthanize egg-laying hens as a way to prevent further spread of the disease — leading to nationwide shortages and a dramatic increase in ...

Creator Gary Larson has used all kinds of animals to make fans laugh in the usually hilarious one-panel comics, with quite a few starring chickens.

Egg-laying hens and broiler chickens – poultry raised for meat – are different, said Will Strickland, an assistant extension agent for Louisiana State University's AgCenter. Egg layers ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Eggs are seen for sale at a Safeway, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) An empty ...

A key to prices will be how long it takes farmers and producers to recover stocks of laying hens. Pelham Manor’s ShopRite on a late-January afternoon had in-store prices for a dozen eggs at $6. ...

The disease is highly contagious and Nerdwallet explains that for this reason, when an outbreak is detected in a flock of egg-laying hens, the farmers have to kill the entire flock to keep it from ...

Roughly 17 million egg-laying hens were killed in in November and December, which is nearly half of all birds killed by the virus in 2024, according to the USDA. The average price of a dozen large ...

Roughly 17 million egg-laying hens were killed in the final two months of 2024 as a result of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). CNN business reporter Vanessa Yurkevich said Wednesday ...