Malaysian businesses support cageless method of egg farming


KLANG: Egg-laying hens at most egg production farms in Malaysia spend their entire "working years" confined in narrow wire cages before they are finally slaughtered and sold off as "ayam pencen" (retired fowl).

These hens have barely enough space to even turn around and this smacks of animal cruelty.

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