A sustainable cafe that cares for the global environment, Gypsy’s mile cafe, is cage-free

This cafe is located in Takeda City, Oita Prefecture, Japan.  In response to an inquiry from Animal Rights Center Japan, they responded that all of the eggs they use are already cage-free, and that they would support the cage-free declaration.  It’s a cafe that is friendly and cares about the connection with people and nature.  The owner had lived in Australia before and knew that most of the eggs in supermarkets there are cage-free and that animal welfare in Japan is lagging behind.

Gypsy’s mile Cafe’s website says,

We live in a time when there is a lot of artificial flavors and tastes, but this can lead to various diseases, which can make plants, animals, and the earth sick.  Food has changed as a result of human beings’ pursuit of cheapness, speed, profit, and appearance.  That it’s natural for humans to eat “natural” food above all else is the Gypsy way of thinking.  At Gypsie’s mile, we will think about humans and the earth so that everything can circulate.

Gypsy’s mile Cafe not only uses cage-free eggs in respect for the nature, but also takes the global environment into consideration, and they use containers that return to soil instead of plastic ones for their lunchboxes.

The following is an excerpt from the owner’s blog.

It’s important to think about nature and coexist with nature in order to make the earth a place where humans can continue to live.  It’s all thanks to the earth that we can eat and breathe every day.  The time has come for each and every one of us to really think about the earth. Now that we’ve seen and learned, we can’t just turn a blind eye and not act because others do not.  I would like to do small things from a small cafe in the countryside of Oita Prefecture.  The price of the lunch box is a little bit higher, and the inconvenience of not being able to see the contents of the lunch box is a nuisance to our customers, but I hope that this is an opportunity for more people to think about the earth.

It’s a cafe that’s not only good for people, but also for the planet.

By the way, this is what the egg section of a supermarket in Australia looks like!

The part enclosed in red is cage-reared egg; the rest are all cage-free eggs.

It’s very different from Japan, where there are supermarkets that do not sell cage-free eggs.

Chickens in cages

Chickens in cage-free rearing (not the farm where Gypsy’s mile Cafe sources eggs.  Another cage-free farmer.)

More than 90% of egg farms in Japan use battery cages.  When caged rearing is being phased out in the world, this is an astonishing number!

A simple thing we can do to reduce the number of hens who continue getting exploited in their cages and go through life immobilized is for the consumers to stop buying cage-reared eggs and eliminate our egg consumption for the sake of the chickens.

If you’ve known the actual situations, let’s start making humane and ethical choices from today.