Shoot, they gave some numbers on the show yesterday and I just can't recall many of them. I do recall that, I think, only about 5% of consumers are now purchasing cage-free eggs - however, if we buy more, the price will come down. I always, always buy cage-free eggs - they are more $, but we don't use a ton, so they're really not that bad.
What they did say is that even the large "family farms" are inappropriately caging/penning their animals - and they showed, on stage and in footage, the exact pens used.
There were people from both sides of the argument on the show. The BEST parts were seeing the free range farming - one was showing how free-range sows (female pigs) CAN indeed be free range and NOT fight/hurt each other - it was the coolest farm! And, it made money, the pigs were healthy and hanging out etcetera. Very cool. They showed free range veal and cage-free chickens.
