veal crate

From what I have seen it's not a battery system with animals tied into veal crates.

We have banned the use of veal crates, and taken action to ensure humane slaughter.

In our view this directive does not properly tackle the cruelty of the veal crate and we voted against it.

The court did not address whether the confinement of calves in veal crates violates 597t.

The following shows where veal crates have been banned, or are currently in the process of being banned:

I am sure that, both on veal crates and pig stalls and tethers, the rest of Europe will have to come up to our standards.

The case prompted Ohio decision-makers to vote in favor of a veal crate phase-out in the state.

I was therefore somewhat shocked to see that someone had placed a veal crate on the floor below, just when we were about to discuss the issue.

State-by-state veal crate bans are as follows:

Notwithstanding the public abhorrence of veal crates, the question is whether the consumer is prepared to pay more for more humanely produced meat.

The measure deals with three types of confinement: veal crates, battery cages, and sow gestation crates.

Veal crates became illegal in the UK in 1990, and a full ban has been placed for the entire European Union, as of 2007.

The campaign was also central in Proposition 204, a successful 2006 Arizona ballot initiative that phases out gestation crates and veal crates.

The measure prohibits the confinement of calves in veal crates and breeding sows in gestation crates.

In 1992 250,000 live calves had been exported for veal crating to the Netherlands alone, and 1.4 million live sheep had been exported.

The bill would have banned gestation and veal crates, eventually being amended to include only veal crates.

Six years later, continued pressure from Compassion in World Farming also resulted in the EU agreeing to phase out veal crates.

As stated above, several large veal producers are working on getting rid of veal crates, as well as the American Veal Association.

It has also helped pass laws against gestation crates in Oregon and both gestation and veal crates in Colorado.

The Strauss Veal company, whose CEO commented that veal crates were "inhumane and archaic" also followed suit.

Most people may not be aware that calves of one to three weeks of age travel in veal crates from various parts of perhaps the entire Community to one farm.

Provan successfully moved a motion calling for a ban on veal crates and a maximum journey time of eight hours for live cattle being transported across Europe in 1995.

We will urge our EC partners to bring animal welfare standards up to UK levels, for example by banning veal crates and stalls and tethers for pigs.

On May 14, 2008, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter signed into law a bill, SB 201, that phases out gestation crates and veal crates.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what discussions he has had with the EC regarding the use of veal crates; and if he will make a statement.