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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rebecca Whittaker

Organic chicken eggs could be worse for the environment, study finds

Organic and free-range eggs are twice as bad for the environment than eggs from chickens kept in cages, a new study has found.

Shifting to an entirely organic free-range method of egg production would raise carbon emissions by 60 per cent while almost doubling land occupation for the birds, according to researchers at the University of Oxford.

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