UK’s Biggest Egg Producer, Noble Foods, Commits Stop Caging Hens

Noble Foods, the UK’s biggest egg producer, has announced a commitment to producing solely cage-free egg production by 2025. The decision, which will reduce the suffering of millions of birds every year, comes just days after Animal Equality released shocking scenes of suffering filmed on a Noble Foods caged-hen farm in Dorset.

While cage-free doesn’t mean cruelty-free, Noble Foods is taking an important step toward improving conditions for animals who suffer tremendously on industrialized farms. Cramming birds in cages is a horrific practice. Studies have shown that birds are social and sensitive creatures with intelligence on par with a toddler. Yet they are forced to live in filthy wire cages with no semblance of a natural life nor the ability to engage in most natural behaviors.

Millions of hens will no longer spend their entire lives standing on painful wire floors thanks to this commitment from Noble.
— Sharon Núñez
President, Animal Equality

Animal Equality’s undercover investigation into one of Noble Foods suppliers finally persuaded them make this commitment, following an intense campaign of 6 months by The Humane League UK.