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End the Cage Age

  • by: Chrissy Henker
  • recipient: europabuero.schulz@spd.de,richard.ashworth@europarl.europa.eu,daniel.caspary@europarl.europa.eu
This is 2015. We do not live in the dark ages. It is high time we evolved past such cruelty and put a stop to the, frankly, medieval practice of keeping farm animals behind bars.

Of all the terrible contraptions used to control animals, the cage is one of the worst. We will never accept the feeble excuse that caging animals is a necessary evil of food production. There is always an alternative. Yet, there are people out there who think that inflicting cruelty on animals is okay.

Cages confine and restrict, they thwart many of an animal’s natural instincts, and they are a desolate reflection on our society. Despite the obvious failings of this outdated technology, in Europe, around 700 million farm animals are confined in cages every year.

In Europe alone, hundreds of millions of animals spend their entire life, from birth to death, in a cage. Cages keep animals isolated, or tightly packed in confined areas. In the worst cases they are barren, provide minimal space and prevent even moderate exercise. Being kept in these conditions, even with excellent stockmanship, can have severe health and welfare implications for the animals involved.

The range of animals that are farmed in a form of cage in the EU is wider than many might think. Not only hens (in ‘enriched cages’), but pigs (in sow stalls and farrowing crates), ducks and quail and even rabbits are all farmed in cages.

We seek to bring about an end to the use of cages in EU farming through the support of national Governments and the European Institutions.
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,


cages perfectly symbolise factory farming. They confine and restrict, they thwart many of an animal’s natural instincts, and they are a desolate reflection on our society. Despite the obvious failings of this outdated technology, in Europe, around 700 million farm animals are confined in cages every year. Every generation must make its mind up which injustice and cruelty to animals it is going to stop. The time has come for this generation to stand up and


We have had enough of working for years to bring in changes in the law, and then fighting to prevent animal welfare rules being ignored or avoided with the production of slightly bigger cages. We have had enough of outdated cages still being used in modern European farming.

 

Pigs, hens, rabbits, ducks, geese and quail are imprisoned in factory farm cages all over the EU.

We urge you to End the Cage Age .


Sincerely,
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