Council is a Good Egg

WARRINGTON Borough Council has received a ‘Good Egg’ award – for pledging to source and use only eggs from cage free hens in school dinners and all other council catering services.
The council uses around 138,000 eggs every year and this move will mean that 511 hens will live a cage-free life every year.
The Good Egg Awards have been developed by Compassion in World Farming, the leading farm animal welfare charity, to celebrate the commitment of companies and public sector bodies to stop using eggs from battery caged hens.
The council is one of a growing number of local authorities in the UK to receive a Good Egg Award.
Compassion in World Farming’s campaign co-ordinator Eloise Shavelar said: “We congratulate Warrington council for going free-range and hope that other councils will follow their example.
“All local authorities have a clear opportunity to lead the way in animal welfare standards, ahead of the 2012 EU ban on barren battery cages. Central and local government offices are important users of eggs – they employ over 2.5 million staff with most providing food for employees and to supply local contracts including schools, residential units and social services.”