Sentences with phrase «veal crate confinement»
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.
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For the past 10 years, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has focused on bringing an end to the confinement of farm animals, mainly pigs and young cows (future veal) who are kept in crates without room to turn around, and the egg - laying hens kept in cages too small to spread their wings.
The measure bans the intensive confinement of breeding pigs and veal calves in tiny crates on corporate factory farms, where the animals can not turn around or stretch their limbs.
On confinement, the company is eliminating from its supply chain all cages for laying hens (within five years), gestation crates for mother pigs (within two years), and crates for veal calves (within two years).