Jack Astor’s, Canyon Creek owner commits to serving cage-free eggs this fall

TORONTO – The owner of Jack Astor’s and Canyon Creek restaurants will soon start serving eggs laid by hens not alone in cages.

SIR Corp, who owns the 2 restaurant chains and many others, announced Thursday all 64 of its restaurants can make the shift by September.

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The promise comes after public pledges by a number of other companies to start dishing up only cage-free eggs too, including Tim Hortons, McDonald’s, and Starbucks. However, most of these companies express it will take between four and Ten years to help make the change.

Currently, about 90 per cent of Canada’s egg farmers keep hens in battery cages, which house several hens and offer each one of these the ground space of a standard sheet of paper.

Egg Farmers of Canada, addressing more than 1,000 from the country’s egg farms, recently said its members will meet the growing interest in cage-free eggs.

By 2036, all of the eggs produced by its member farms can come from hens residing in either enriched cages – bigger units that offer space and amenities, such as perches, for that animals to demonstrate natural behaviours – or in free-run, aviary or free-range environments.