Tamagokakegohan Tamanosuke set in the nature of Sasayama is cage-free

Tamagokakegohan Tamanosuke is a restaurant in Tamba Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture that specializes in raw eggs over rice.

The owner already knew the term “cage-free declaration”, and agreed with this cage-free proposal without hesitation.

In addition to the main eggs over rice dish, cage-free eggs are used for side dishes such as fried eggs and pudding. Tamagokakegohan Tamanosuke’s website says,

98% of the eggs sold in Japan are from caged rearing, and the remaining 2% are the rare cage-free eggs.

Produced by the poultry method in which the chickens are free on the flat ground, these eggs come from healthy chickens who grow freely in an environment close to nature, playing in the sand and running around freely.  Raised by a local farm, you can enjoy safe, high-quality, rich taste with sweet yolk and egg white with no odor.

You can see that this is a restaurant that gives consideration to the safety of the chickens and the food.

Caged rearing is a rearing method where the chickens are kept in cages, which is not healthy or 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 Tamagokakegohan Tamanosuke 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.