Thursday, September 10, 2015

Front page news today in the Vancouver Sun

MacDonalds to phase in cage-free eggs.  Well,  the European Union is way ahead on this and other animals welfare issues.  I wonder why North America is so far behind?

European Union Council Directive 1999/74/EC[1] is legislation passed by the European Union on the minimum standards for keeping egg laying hens which effectively bans conventional battery cages. The directive, passed in 1999, banned conventional battery cages in the EU from January 1, 2012 after a 13-year phase-out. Battery cages were already banned in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden prior to 2012.