Paretaco Shokudo, who respects the ideal ways of animals, is cage-free

Spice curry Paretaco Shokudo is a curry restaurant that operates by appearing at events and holding cooking classes around Japan.

The owner Takumi Seto is particular about the natural ways of animals and food, and all eggs used in the store are cage-free.

Mr. Seto says,

I would like to receive lives that grew up in their original natural forms.

There are too many unnatural foods around me, so it’s difficult to continue eating naturally, but some produce products that are close to nature, so I’d like to support them, so I try to use cage-free eggs and wild meat.

There is no way that eating animals who were raised on drugs and with stress can be healthy, and when I imagined that, I naturally changed to the current style.

Mr. Seto now wants to return to more natural ways of raising, and eventually wants to reduce the amount of animal products!

In Japan, over 90% of the farms use battery cage rearing, confining chickens in cages.

It’s misleading to say that that’s healthy, and it’s definitely not natural.

Caged chickens

On the other hand, there do exist a few cage-free egg farms, which allow chickens to roam freely.

Cage-free chickens   (not the farm where Paretaco Shokudo sources eggs from.  Another cage-free farm.)

Caged rearing is being abolished all over the world, and Japan’s animal welfare is currently far behind.

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.

People who become aware of the actual situations and make humane and ethical choices today are what will lead to a sustainable future.