Purinyasan Hohoemi Kitchen, a specializing in barn-raised egg puddings, is cage-free

In response to an inquiry from Animal Rights Center Japan, a pudding shop Purinyasan Hohoemi Kitchen in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, that specializes in pudding using barn-raised eggs, responded that all the eggs they use are already cage-free and that they would support the cage-free declaration.

The owner says,

I know that most Japanese eggs are cage raised.

I use cage-free eggs because I want the animals to be like those animals at least while they are alive.

I wish cage-free eggs will become more commonly distributed.

In addition, for ecological reason, you can get one stamp on the point card when you return the container and the lid to go, and you can exchange it for one pudding when you collect 15.

In Japan, over 90% of the farms uses 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 Purinyasan Hohoemi Kitchen 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.

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