Slow boil for caged egg ban, but new standards agreed to

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A customer shops for eggs at a supermarket. Source: Getty / Brandon Bell

A timeline on phasing out caged eggs in Australia has been put back to state and territory governments, after a meeting between the nation's agriculture ministers. The ministers agreed to endorse new standards to improve welfare, that could see some caged farming methods phased out by 2036.


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