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

Egg Prices Plunge More Than 50% Since December Highs

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

SBS News In Depth
View Podcast Series

Get the SBS Audio app

Other ways to listen

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. But the ministers did agree to endorse new standards to improve welfare, that could see some caged farming methods phased out by 2036.

Listen to Australian and world news, and follow trending topics with 
SBS News Podcasts.
Share

Latest podcast episodes

Good Friday procession at Mar Gorgis Chaldean Church in Alqosh, Iraq - 18 Apr 2025
Nigethan Sithirasegaram has waited 16 years to be reunited with his wife. (SBS-Scott Cardwell).jpg
Biserka Vucenik teaching pensioners how to make black eggs (AP).jpg
Why do insurance premiums always go up, not down (Getty).jpg

Recommended for you

ELECTION25 PETER DUTTON CAMPAIGN
A very close-up shot of a woman and a 7-year-old boy both smiling and wearing green and white headbands
The sun against an orange sky.
Cory Booker walks toward reporters after delivering a record setting floor speech for the US Senate
A man in black glasses and a navy blue jumper standing side on in an outback landscape
A stylised image featuring a man's portrait overlaid against a backdrop of people standing amidst rubble.
The moon rising over Bondi Beach in Sydney.
A stylised image of the Australian parliament with a colourful pattern around it.