B.auction cages on farms: after the resolution adopted by Emilia Romagna in May 2021, the Campania Regional Council also unanimously approved the motion that prohibits cramming animals in conditions of suffering.
End of the cage age, the image of the campaign for the abolition of cages in farms, supported by about 170 associations in 28 countries
A step that is in line with the initiative End the cage agethe campaign that collected 1.4 million signatures across Europe to ask the European Commission to eliminate the cages. And since the EU Commission approved the request, by 2027 every animal reared in the Union will be able to live free from cages. Campania and Emilia Romagna are therefore the leaders, in Italy, of this important change.
In a cage, unnecessary and avoidable suffering
«It is no longer possible to condemn animals involved in the food chain a avoidable and unnecessary suffering such as the use of cagesSaid Alice Trombetta, executive director of Animal Equality Italy, among the associations (as many as 170 associations in 28 countries) that have spent their time collecting signatures at European level. “We hope that many more will soon follow the approval of this motion.”
The next steps, until 2027
As for the next moves by the European Commission, a legislative proposal will be prepared by 2023 for ban the use of cages for a number of farm animals set to come into effect in 2027. The Commission proposal will in particular concern animals already covered by the legislation in force, i.e. laying hens, sows and calves, but also rabbits, pullets, breeding laying hens, breeding broilers, quail, ducks and geese.
For these animals, the Commission has already asked EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority, to integrate existing scientific data to determine the conditions necessary to ban cages. The Commission has also undertaken to propose a revision of the legislation also with regard to transport and breeding. The next developments are expected by the summer.
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