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Closed Petition closed 8th September 2019

End the Cage Age: ban cages for all farmed animals. - Final Signatures: 107,187

Across the UK, millions of farmed animals are kept in cages, unable to express their natural behaviours. This causes huge suffering.

We call on the UK government to end this inhumane practice by banning all cages for farmed animals. Cages are cruel.

Debate: This petition was debated in Westminster Hall on 16th March 2020

The Government responsed to this petition on 22nd March 2019 (View Full Response)
We have already banned cages where there is clear scientific evidence that they are detrimental to animal health and welfare. Our comprehensive laws protect the welfare of livestock in all systems.
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Found: This cannot be the future of British farming.

Select Committee
Farmwel
 BFD0001 - Brand Britain: Promoting and Marketing British food and drink inquiry

Written Evidence Oct. 11 2018

Inquiry: Brand Britain: Promoting and Marketing British food and drink inquiry
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: core principles are common and can be used to help ensure a good life for all farm animals.

Select Committee
Farmwel - written evidence

Written Evidence Oct. 10 2018

Inquiry: Brand Britain: Promoting and Marketing British food and drink
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: core principles are common and can be used to help ensure a good life for all farm animals.

Westminster Hall
Fur Trade - Mon 04 Jun 2018
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Gordon Marsden (LAB - Blackpool South) dogs are kept in“wire-mesh cages on fur farms for months on end”and“coyotes and other animal are caught - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) the very small spaces in which animals farmed for fur spend their entire lives. - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) typical cage in fur farms—not just the worst cage, but that used most frequently—“does not provide for - Speech Link
4: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) animal production, including animals farmed for fur. - Speech Link

Select Committee
Claire Bass, Executive Director, Humane Society International UK, Alex Bushill, News Correspondent, BBC London News, Sarah Hajibagheri, Reporter, Sky News; Neil Hackett, Interim Supply Chain Director, Missguided, Paul Horsfield, Merchandising Director, BooHoo, Dorothy Maxwell, Head of Sustainability, House of Fraser

Oral Evidence Mar. 07 2018

Inquiry: Fur trade in the UK inquiry
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: the cage age, the fur farming industry is standing by it, almost as a badge of honour.

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Salmon Farming Environmental Impacts Inquiry - Tue 06 Feb 2018

Mentions:
1: None The figures are used for protecting only the fish in the cages and there is no enforcement. - Speech Link
2: Stevenson, Stewart (None - None) In the wild salmon population, age cohort by age cohort, are they more or less likely to die in the wild - Speech Link
3: None the animals, so that aspect is certainly covered by the legislation. - Speech Link
4: None The focus of the protection work is at the precautionary end when it comes to all new applications that - Speech Link
5: Ruskell, Mark (Green - Mid Scotland and Fife) face an export ban on not just Scottish salmon but all our fisheries products in four years. - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Plans to Improve the Natural Environment and Animal Welfare - Thu 07 Dec 2017
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (CON - Life peer) Of course, any ban on live exports should apply only to animals for slaughter and not to breeding or - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) food which influences the way that animals are farmed. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Shrewsbury (CON - Excepted Hereditary) future generations along the lines of the Campaign for the Farmed Environment. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) We have been waiting for a piece of legislation to ban the use of wild animals in circuses for some years - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
New Petitions - Tue 17 Jun 2014

Mentions:
1: None campaign is not asking for a ban on a newspaper. - Speech Link
2: None actions.We are not asking for a ban. - Speech Link
3: None No one in the campaign is calling for an end to The Sun. - Speech Link
4: MacDonald, Angus (None - None) For example, should the Government buy out all the netting stations and put an end to netting altogether - Speech Link
5: None We asked the American Government to ban the import of salmon farmed in farms that are allowed to shoot - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (Closed consultation)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nov. 27 2012

Source Page: Animal health and welfare and food safety report: review of the balance of competences
Document: Animal health and welfare and food safety report: review of the balance of competences (PDF)

Found: Animal health and welfare and food safety report: review of the balance of competences

Commons Chamber
Badger Cull - Thu 25 Oct 2012
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) way forward.As I said, modern husbandry practices place chronic stress on intensively farmed animals - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) co-decision, to make plans to lift the ban on exports. - Speech Link
3: James Paice (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) We opted for controlled shooting as the predominant method, although cages would have to be used as well - Speech Link
4: Paul Flynn (LAB - Newport West) One of the joys that come with old age is a long memory. - Speech Link
5: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn), who showed the advantages of age and approaching the status of - Speech Link