Looking forward to Shrove Tuesday!

Ohhh this is my favourite time of the year! The mornings are getting lighter, the sun is shining (at the moment it is anyway!) and the daffodils are just starting to poke through the ground.

So with Spring just around the corner, that can mean only one thing – Pancake Day!

Here at the RSPCA, we’re urging people not to forget about animals when they are mixing up the batter.

The unpalatable truth is that many of the eggs available to make our pancakes come from hens that have lived out their lives in wire cages.

The good news is that latest figures from Defra show more people than ever are choosing higher welfare eggs. In fact, for the first time the UK is producing 50 per cent of eggs from cage-free systems!

However, this does mean that half of all UK eggs still come from hens kept in cruel battery cages, where the usable space for each bird (in barren as well as so-called ‘enriched’ battery cages) is less than the size of a piece of A4 paper.

That’s about 17 million hens kept in cages, unable to move around or move away from each other freely or express other natural behaviour properly.
Whether you decide to have yours with lemon and sugar, chocolate spread or syrup, please think about the hens too and make your pancake a higher welfare one.

Oh, and check out some great recipe ideas for Pancake Day and beyond here - http://bit.ly/dTULRp

Or to find out more about laying hens, log onto http://bit.ly/aCuyqu

Bon Appétit!! xx