WASHINGTON — With more consumers and corporations such as McDonald's demanding eggs from birds raised under more spacious conditions, Iowa-based Rembrandt Foods realized the company's future had to change.
Rembrandt, the nation’s No. 3 egg producer, announced in October that cage-free egg production would become its “standard,” with the company focusing most of its growth and investment on a production practice many view as more humane for the country's nearly 300 million egg-laying hens.
“It’s somewhat of an inevitable conclusion that the industry is going to move toward cage-free, and we want to be a part of that,” said Jonathan Spurway, vice president of marketing at Rembrandt Foods in Spirit Lake. “This is very much consumer-driven.”
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