“I felt it was really important for me to see a commercial farm and I was very impressed. The hens looked really happy and healthy, just how all hens should be.”
This was 14-year-old schoolgirl and animal welfare campaigner Lucy Gavaghan’s reaction to her recent tour of Wood Farm, Waresley, Bedfordshire - a member of RSPCA Assured and the first commercial laying hen farm Lucy has visited.
You may have seen on the news recently that Lucy helped convince three major supermarkets to stop selling eggs from caged hens has enjoyed her first tour of a commercial farm.
She gathered 460,000 signatures of support for online petitions calling for the supermarket giants Tesco, Morrisons and Asda to stop selling eggs from caged hens.
Her tireless campaigning paid off when all