battery farming

We must turn our backs on intensive and battery farming.

Believe me, I'm personally against unnecessary slaughter of animals and battery farming.

Battery farming is due to be banned across the EU by 2012.

I believe that we must ensure that battery farming is completely banned by 1 January 2012.

The battery farming of hens is also unnecessary.

But he rejected suggestions that the best way forward is to discontinue intensive battery farming methods.

This was to promote awareness and encourage the boycotting of Battery Farming.

And battery farming cannot be healthy.

We have announced our intention to phase out the battery farming of hens in the United Kingdom.

Intensive battery farming is one result.

We can't endorse a product which involves battery farming.'

E.G arguments against battery farming can not win on cost in favour of free range.

Is that a reason to treat them nastily, which is what battery farming is?

The EU gave chicken farmers 13 years advance notice of banning battery farming.

Pigs are intelligent, sensitive animals, yet they too are submitted to virtual imprisonment at the hand of battery farming.

At different times he had campaigned against battery farming, the transportation of live animals and the importation of goose liver pate.

Intensive livestock production would be discouraged, and battery farming phased out, in favour of more open-air livestock farming.

Supporters of battery farming contend that alternative systems such as free range also have welfare problems, such as increases in cannibalism, feather pecking and vent pecking.

Most of this seems to have worked most of the time, though a large number of chickens were inadvertently electrocuted in what was an early experiment in battery farming.

There are issues of regional variation in demand and expectation, as well as current debates concerning methods of mass production, with the European Union's ban on battery farming of chickens.

(DE) Mr President, Commissioner, at this point, I would like once again to point out that a decision has already been made to ban the practice of battery farming in cages.

(DE) Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have known for twelve years that battery farming practices would be banned in the EU from 1 January 2012 onwards.

After the farce of the new battery farming rules - which it seems only apply in countries like the UK - I find it hard to take anything the EU requires seriously.

Mr President, as regards the Kindermann report on battery hens, I wish to say that we Danish Social Democrats are in favour of anything that will lead to the abolition of battery farming.

The farm (or, more properly, factory, since it is entirely indoors) is named Ise - pronounced EE-say -Farms, and it uses a method of mass production called "battery farming," which animal-rights activists abhor.