Cage Free Eggs

We’re pleased to say that just about all of the eggs we buy for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in the United States come from chickens on certified cage-free farms. (The exception: we have not yet completed the transition to cage-free eggs for the plant that makes our ice cream bars. In all, about 98% of the eggs we buy are cage-free and we will get to 100% as soon as we can.)

Our thinking is pretty simple: happy hens lay good eggs. It’s clear to us that cage-free farms, when certified to meet third-party standards, give hens more space to do as they please: scratch around, roost, and gossip about the henhouse.