HSUS also led the effort to pass a law in Michigan banning
battery cage confinement.
Not exact matches
The HSUS has officially withdrawn a ballot initiative petition on the same subject, which would have also phased out the
confinement of egg - laying hens in
battery cages.
In a landslide 2008 vote, nearly 64 percent of California voters passed the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, phasing out
battery cage, gestation crate, and veal crate
confinement statewide.
From 2005 on, The HSUS has worked to end the
confinement of hens in
battery cages.
Neither term implies anything about animal welfare; products from «factory» farming and
confinement operations (such as
battery cages for chickens), can still be organic, natural, both, or neither.