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By the year 2012, the very worst space-depriving cages for egg-laying chickens will have been banned in the EU. About time too, for they are grim and deeply objectionable. Hard to believe that a nation of so-called ‘animal-lovers’ could have let them exist for so long. Meanwhile, unless you really don’t care one iota about animal welfare, pay the few extra pence to buy free-range eggs. The law guarantees that the chickens that lay these eggs at least have continuous daytime access to outdoor runs. In other words, they can peck around and stretch their wings, even if they don’t live in quite the idyllic circumstances one might imagine. Organic eggs are by definition free-range.