As its name suggests, Sustainable kitchen rosy that respects sustainable choices is cage-free

In response to an inquiry from Animal Rights Center Japan, Sustainable Kitchen Rosy, an organic restaurant in Chiyoda ward, Tokyo, responded that all the eggs they use are already cage-free, and that they would support the cage-free declaration.

This restaurant uses cage-free eggs in support of farmers and in hopes that everyone who visits the shop will be healthy.

Sustainable Kitchen Rosy’s website says,

Grow with the future

Our mission is to grow the future together.

Using cage-free natural eggs and using vegetables from contract farmers who don’t use pesticides or chemical fertilizers.

We don’t use plastic containers or straws that affect the environment and the ecosystems of animals.

And we always carry out garbage reduction and food loss countermeasures. We will create an ethical space through food as a restaurant that practices SDGs not only in words, but in our daily lives.

Diseases are less prevalent than in caged breeding, and supporting cage-free animals in terms of animal welfare is a choice in line with the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).

This restaurant also serves vegan dishes, and it can be said that it is a store that considers creating a sustainable future with consumers as well as using cage-free eggs.

In Japan, over 90% 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 Sustainable Kitchen Rosy 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.