Battery farming set to end in 2012


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16 June 1999Battery farming set to end in 2012


EUROPEAN agriculture ministers have decided to ban battery cages for hens – but not until 2012.


No new cages can be installed after 1 January, 2003. No compensation will be paid.


Producers face the choice of free-range farming or housing hens on perches in barns. Alternatively, hens could be held in larger cages which would be double the size of a battery cage and


give each a nest, perch and a scratching strip.


Standards for what the European Union have dubbed the “enriched cage” are to be agreed by ministers before 1 January, 2002.


Andrew Joret, animal welfare chairman of the British Egg Industry Council, said it would be important that the legislation was enforced to ensure any producer got a commercial advantage by


not applying the standards.

Europe to outlaw battery cages, FWi, yesterday (15 June, 1999)Ministers debate farm prices, battery cages, FWi, yesterday (15 June, 1999)The Times 16/06/99


page 2The Independent 16/06/99 page 14Financial Times 16/06/99 page 3The Daily Telegraph 16/06/99 page 14The Herald 16/06/99 page 23


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