Eggs
Buy free-range
This is the simplest thing you can do to help the hens that lay your eggs. Free-range hens have access to the outdoors and are not confined in cages.
The cheapest eggs are usually from cage systems – where hens are confined in small cages and never allowed outside. They are not allowed to run about or carry out 'natural behaviours' like laying eggs in a nest, flapping their wings, dust bathing, scratching and perching.
Remember egg ingredients
Remember lots of things like mayonnaise, cakes, biscuits and quiches contain egg. Unless the ingredients say 'free-range eggs' they are likely to be from caged hens.
Good Egg Awards
Find lists of companies using free-range or barn eggs, instead of cage eggs, on our Good Egg Awards website.
You can also download our Pocket Egg Guide ( 1014.37KB)
Find out more about laying hens here.