Study Says Consumers Favor National Egg Legislation
Legislation was introduced to the US congress in January 2012 that would require egg producers to switch from conventional cages to “enriched cages.” Enriched cages refer to “colony housing,” which would need to be phased in over 15 to 18 years. Sponsorship of the survey and the question wording was not made publicly available.
2,000 registered US voters were surveyed regarding their attitudes toward new legislation proposed in congress to improve the living conditions of egg laying hens. “Consumers said they would support federal legislation that would transition egg production from the existing conventional cages used for egg-laying hens to enriched cages by a margin of 4-to-1. Furthermore, consumers said that federal legislation was preferable to state legislation by a margin of 2-to-1.”