Oenosato Natural Farm is cage free "respecting chickens' natural ways"

Oenosato Nature Farm in Yazu-gun, Tottori Prefecture has supported ARCJ’s Cage-Free & Egg-Smart Campaign. Eggs used in restaurants, cafes, and souvenirs like sweets in the facility are all cage-free. Only the eggs collected at the cage-free poultry farm in the ranch are used. Pancakes and sweets made with cage-free eggs are gaining popularity.

In addition, Oenosato Nature Farm has a 40,000-bird class cage-free poultry farm.
They began cage-free rearing because “the founder, who was disappointed with modern poultry that treats chickens as if they were tools for laying eggs, treats chickens as living beings and raises them in their natural form” *1.
“It is natural for chickens to run around freely on the ground. Carefully raising chickens in their original form leads to the production of truly delicious eggs.” *2
Based on this philosophy, while cherishing chickens and eggs as blessings of nature, Oenosato Nature Farm is entertaining visitors with two things, an “experience-based resort” and “orders”.

(Photo from ARCJ collection)

By the way, one reason why the world’s largest companies have declared cage free one after another and this has become a global trend is that there is an international recognition that releasing animals from confined environments is a symbolic animal welfare effort.

In particular, there are two directions that are desired as consideration for livestock animals: (1) improving the rearing conditions, and (2) reducing the number of suffering animals. Among them, the improvement of the rearing conditions by shifting the rearing method of hens from battery cage to cage free has already been realized in Europe, almost 30% is in transition in the United States, and Japan is expected to follow Europe and the United States in a few years.

Continuing to naturally arouse smiles in people when popular resorts like Oenosato Nature Farm with influence in Japan say cage-free eggs are delicious and happy food, not only raises consumer awareness, but also we hope that it will lead to the proposal of a uniquely Japanese animal welfare business model “cage free as hospitality”.

On the other hand, the move to reduce suffering animals has become quite common in the recent soy meat substitution boom. With somewhat nostalgic and newly tasting burgers, etc., this is stimulating Japanese people’s consumption, and further development is expected in the future.

*1 *2 Both from Oenosato Natural Farm official website

About Oenosato Natural Farm:
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https://www.oenosato.com/