How UK Supermarkets Compare
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 |
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Harvey Nichols | Only free range eggs used in own brand products |
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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 |
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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! |
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Waitrose | All own brand chilled & frozen products contain free range eggs. |
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Asda | Extra Special range of own brand products contain free range eggs |
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Tesco | No intention of banning battery eggs in the near future |
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Iceland | No intention of banning battery eggs in the near future |
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Morrisons | No intention of banning battery eggs in the near future |
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