Ah , I should have edited my post to say I didn ' t read the article . I just saw your comment and thought I should mention pasture raised eggs as a potential alternative ! Obviously the actual solution is to simply lower the demand for eggs , but you try telling hundreds of millions of people that they can no longer dunk their toast soliders ! It might work ! I grew up eating inhumane eggs , and eventually transitioned to eating more pricey cagefree and freerange inhumane eggs , thinking that they ' d be more humane . When I found out the truth , I decided to cut eggs out of my diet and started eating oatmeal for breakfast until I found out about pastured eggs . It was a difficult transition but I just couldn ' t eat them after reading about and seeing videos of what conditions were like for chickens . I ' m just one person , but if the reality of modern chicken farming gets out to more people , I ' ll bet some of them decide to change their diets . If enough people support farmers who pasture raise their chickens , it may create more demand for such farmers in situations where land doesn ' t have to be cleared . I ' ve heard of urban chicken farming or even suburban backyard chicken farming humanely done , and yielding healthy chickens with abundant amounts of eggs more than the farmer ' s family can eat that are shared with or sold to the community .