In-Depth Feature of Free-range Poultry In East Bay Express

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Endangered Species: Free-range poultry may be the first casualty

in our war on avian flu.The East Bay ExpressNovember

30, 2005"As animal-welfare protests go, this one was

pretty tame: no costumes, no spray paint, just three young women

standing outside Emeryville's Trader Joe's on a mild October evening

doling out brochures. "Why Won't Trader Joe's Give an Inch?" the fliers

read, above a photo of chickens looking forlornly through the wires of

overcrowded cages at eggs they had just laid. The activists were

members of East Bay Animal Advocates, a Martinez group that is part of

a nationwide campaign by the Humane Society of the United States to

persuade Trader Joe's to sell only "cage-free" or "free-range" eggs.

The Humane Society spearheaded the 2003-2004 campaign that led to a ban

on foie gras production in California, and has since turned to weaning

the egg industry from so-called battery cages, the wire cages where the

vast majority of farmers keep their laying hens."Read

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