Harvard to Serve Cage-free Eggs!

College dining halls to serve cage-free eggs
By Jay Fitzgerald

Boston Herald General Economics Reporter
Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Harvard University dining halls will be the latest to serve up eggs that don't come from caged hens, which activists say is cruel treatment.
Harvard yesterday said it will join other universities and corporations that have already vowed to stop buying whole eggs from farms that use so-called "battery cages" to house hens.
"I'm thrilled," said AnnaLise Hoopes, a Harvard graduate student who last fall started the campus crusade to promote eggs from cage-free hens.
"It's a reprehensible form of cruelty," said Paul Shapiro, a director at the Humane Society of the United States, referring to tiny cages where chickens are kept on many farms. Chickens in such cages can't even stand or spread their wings for their entire lives, he said.
Harvard joins such schools as Tufts, Princeton and Dartmouth in the anti-cage movement. Corporations that have also banned or vowed to ban battery-cage eggs include Ben and Jerry's and Finagle A Bagel.
Harvard University Dining Services will now buy its whole eggs from Pete and Gerry's, an organic farm in Monroe, N.H.
And they'll buy a lot of eggs - about 500,000 a year, costing an extra $20,000.
The dining services will continue to use "liquid eggs" served in cartons, which can use eggs from hend kept in cages.
But Hoopes said she's just happy, for the time being, that Harvard is changing the type of whole eggs it buys.

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