POULTRY REVIEW SUBMISSION

Last chance to make a submission to free hens from battery cages once and for all.

 

To the Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines review,

I write to ask that the Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Poultry be amended to include a nationwide ban of battery cages and cruel farming practices including but not limited to debeaking, forced moulting, and food and water deprivation.  It is unacceptable that these animals have been condemned to a life of cruelty and exploitation just for the production of cheap eggs.  

The Australian public refuses to allow these cruelties to continue and it is time that the standards reflect that.  

Good animal welfare is a combination of physical and mental wellbeing and natural living. None of these are currently being granted to egg-laying hens. They need space to move, nest and behave naturally. 

So I ask you, please join the ACT, Europe, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada in banning the battery cage, debeaking and other cruel farming methods and help improve the lives of millions of hens all around Australia.

Kind regards,

 

Who's signing

Jadie Collins
Kate Hughes
Zena Davies
Carole Hungerford
Susan Bidwell
Margaret Black
Carl Milton
Nadia Warne
Christopher Matos
Prudence Page
Zoe Hutchings
Jennifer Waldeck
Joan Sa
Robyn Plaister
Michael Mulcahy
Maria Soria
Kylie Gottsche
Yolande Nardi
Julia Gorman
Rhiannon Goode
Lyndsay Jones
Caryl Bajrai
Sean Corrigan
Bronwyn Wilson
Daniel Sturrock
Jon Firth
Linda Rogers
Kobi Shetty
Rhonda Myers
Diane Losche
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  • Jadie Collins
    signed 2018-02-19 18:32:09 +1100
  • Kate Hughes
    signed 2018-02-18 18:13:31 +1100
  • Zena Davies
    signed 2018-02-18 14:56:27 +1100
    I eat an egg for breakfast every day. Domesticated livestock serve us well, so in a civilized world, we humans at the top of the food chain could at least treat our food sources with a little decency. Imprisoned mutilated birds which peck at the adjacent cages in frustration so that they and their neighbours are denuded of their feathers and bloodied are the result of savagery, cruelty and greed.

    I expect my daily egg to come from a humane source where the birds are free to move about in the open air.
  • Carole Hungerford
    signed 2018-02-18 07:53:27 +1100
  • Susan Bidwell
    signed 2018-02-17 15:35:19 +1100
  • Margaret Black
    signed 2018-02-17 14:10:58 +1100
    Good animal welfare is important please ban battery cages and cruel farming practices.
  • Carl Milton
    signed 2018-02-17 12:15:41 +1100
    The days of the appalling practice of battery hen farming should be consigned to history along with burning heretics at the stake.Needless animal cruelty is not a sign of an advanced civilization.
  • Nadia Warne
    signed 2018-02-17 10:03:02 +1100
  • Christopher Matos
    signed 2018-02-17 08:44:01 +1100
    If we all payed a bit more for eggs (or any other animal based food) but consumed less per person (because we eat way too much anyway), we may just hatch open a new world of healthy and affordable sustainability…

    ❤️✌️☮️🐔🥚🍳
  • Prudence Page
    signed 2018-02-17 02:51:58 +1100
  • Zoe Hutchings
    signed 2018-02-17 01:02:11 +1100
  • Jennifer Waldeck
    signed 2018-02-16 23:22:48 +1100
  • Joan Sa
    signed 2018-02-16 22:55:33 +1100
  • Robyn Plaister
    signed 2018-02-16 22:32:11 +1100
  • Michael Mulcahy
    signed 2018-02-16 21:05:17 +1100
  • Maria Soria
    signed 2018-02-16 20:55:13 +1100
  • Kylie Gottsche
    signed 2018-02-16 20:38:01 +1100
  • Yolande Nardi
    signed 2018-02-16 19:27:09 +1100
  • Julia Gorman
    signed 2018-02-16 19:22:04 +1100
  • Rhiannon Goode
    signed 2018-02-16 19:12:50 +1100
  • Lyndsay Jones
    signed 2018-02-16 19:06:24 +1100
  • Caryl Bajrai
    signed 2018-02-16 18:58:01 +1100
    We’ve been passionate about this for years !
  • Sean Corrigan
    signed 2018-02-16 18:36:52 +1100
  • Bronwyn Wilson
    signed 2018-02-16 17:54:43 +1100
    I am happy to pay more for eggs just to know that the hens have improved living conditions. What sort of society condones cruel farming methods because they are hidden out of sight from most people, it is wrong and immoral.
  • Daniel Sturrock
    signed 2018-02-16 17:41:29 +1100
  • Jon Firth
    signed 2018-02-16 17:27:51 +1100
  • Linda Rogers
    signed 2018-02-16 17:26:16 +1100
  • Kobi Shetty
    signed 2018-02-16 17:26:14 +1100
  • Rhonda Myers
    signed 2018-02-16 16:52:08 +1100
  • Diane Losche
    signed 2018-02-16 16:50:51 +1100