The Battery Hen Welfare Trust has put together a table rating how our supermarkets fare regarding the use of battery eggs in their products:

Supermarket

Their policy

Rating

Marks & Spencer

All their food products contain only free range eggs

Selfridges

Same as M & S and Waitrose - all own brand products contain free range eggs

Harvey Nichols

Only free range eggs used in own brand products

The Co-op

Hope to be battery egg free in own brand products some time in the summer

Budgens

Currently taking battery eggs of shelves in some stores with intention of permanently removing all battery eggs

Selfridges

All own brand chilled & frozen products contain free range eggs.

Sainsburys

Cage free shell eggs by 2012 and their 'taste the difference' range is already  'free range!

Waitrose

All own brand chilled & frozen products contain free range eggs.

Asda

Extra Special range of own brand products contain free range eggs

Tesco

No intention of banning battery eggs in the near future

Iceland

No intention of banning battery eggs in the near future

Morrisons

No intention of banning battery eggs in the near future