The managing director of The Australian Egg Corporation, James Kellaway, has appeared twice in The Herald in the past fortnight trying to explain away the cruelty that is battery hen farming. But in neither the long article nor the shorter letter did Mr Kellaway tell us that caged egg farming is not cruel. Yesterday I asked him, and in my column in The Herald today I give an account of his logic that leads to the claim that caging a hen on a minimum of 550 square centimetres promotes their health and wellbeing over free range! That 550 square centimetres is quite a bit less than an A4 page, and less still since the space under the egg baffle, manure deflector and water trough is included in the 550 square centimetres.
I suppose an alternative view will always snare some support. Has Mr Kellaway's snared yours?
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