With the onset of functional ingredients, there has also been an increase in grazing, which is disrupting America’s cultural normalcy of three square meals per day.

This expansion includes new facilities for 2 million cage-free hens, a processing plant, additional pullet capacity and renovation of existing capacity.

Chick-fil-A has already begun collaborating with its egg suppliers nationwide to begin the transition.

Once operational in June, the plant will produce 430,000 eggs per day to be used in manufacturing products such as mayonnaise.

Kangaroo Brands was named a Processor to Watch in 2018.

The strategy also builds upon CSR goals and policies aimed at eliminating global hunger and malnutrition, creating a more sustainable supply chain and reducing its environmental footprint, as well as a more recent commitment to raise standards for treatment of broiler chickens in its U.S. supply chain.

In some parts of the world, such as in Europe, over 40% of eggs used by Nestlé are already from cage-free sources.