Cafe Seaside Table Egg commits Cage-Free egg, Specializing in Menus Featuring Free-Range Eggs

The cafe Seaside Table Egg in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, known for its dishes and sweets primarily made with eggs, has committed to using only cage-free eggs.

Opened in May 2023, Seaside Table Egg is operated by Oakrich Inc., a company that produces free-range eggs.

The menu at the cafe exclusively uses free-range eggs from Oakrich Co., Ltd.

Mr. Togashi, the representative of Oakrich, chose free-range poultry farming to create eggs that meet his standards, based on the belief that good eggs can only come from healthy birds.

Mr. Togashi’s passionate commitment to his chickens and free-range farming is detailed on their website.

All our efforts, including free-range farming and using non-genetically modified grain feed, have been aimed at harnessing the natural power of the chickens.
At Oakrich’s farm, we follow nature’s laws, with chickens as the main actors and humans as their supportive sidekicks.
Chickens, being small, are more susceptible to stress and its damaging effects. Managing their health requires great care.
Through long-term experience in various forms of egg farming, we’ve learned an obvious truth: good eggs come only from healthy birds.
Free-range farming is not efficient from a business perspective and doesn’t allow for large-scale operations, but I believe it’s the only way to produce eggs that are safe to consume in the long term and that I can personally be satisfied with

(Excerpt from the website)

Currently, the cage farming of many egg-laying chickens in Japan is problematic, as it does not allow chickens to exhibit their natural abilities and creates a stressful environment for them, as Mr. Togashi points out. Furthermore, animal welfare issues are deeply connected to environmental issues, human rights, and our health, leading to a global shift against cage farming. Laws prohibiting cage farming and corporate decisions to stop using cage eggs are accelerating worldwide.

As a future societal trend, we need to recognize that animal welfare-conscious livestock farming like Oakrich Co., Ltd. is increasingly demanded and valued globally.