Sentences with phrase «out of battery cages»
In a historic move, Tasmania has become the first Australian state to commit to a complete phase out of battery cages!
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«You're seeing almost every major retailer, almost every major fast food producer and restaurant chain committing to phasing out the use of battery cages and / or gestation crates,» ASPCA Farm Welfare director Daisy Freund tells Business Insider.
The HSUS has officially withdrawn a ballot initiative petition on the same subject, which would have also phased out the confinement of egg - laying hens in battery cages.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.
The outcome was that the banning of battery cages was kept out of the Draft Standards.
A landmark in the history of battery egg farming was Council Directive 1999 / 74 / EC, under which all EU member states were obliged to phase out «battery» cages, and replace them entirely with larger «enriched» cages by 2012.
March 2015: 2 roosters February 2015: 1,500 hens from battery cage egg farm January 2015: 185 hens from battery cage egg farm January 2015: 24 hens and 5 roosters from pasture - based egg farm going out of business