17 May 2017 --- Consumers prefer to buy free-range or cage-free eggs because they believe they taste better and are better in terms of quality than eggs from caged hens, new research funded by the Australian Research Council suggests. In the study, conducted by researchers at the University of Adelaide and published in Anthrozoös, the most often reported motivations for buying free-range eggs included reasons such as that the eggs were of better quality, more nutritious, safer to eat and that they allowed purchasers to avoid “industrialized” food.
