Campaigners’ rage against the cage could prompt EU farming revolution

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Date of Publication: May 6

Year of Publication: 2021

Publication City: Brussels, Belgium

Publisher: Politico

Author(s): Eddy Wax

Over 1 million EU citizens want to break Europe’s 300 million farm animals out of confinement.

Europe’s farms may be about to witness a gigantic prison break.

A crescendo of cage-rattling by EU citizens who are anxious about the welfare of farm animals and disgusted by the grim reality of industrial agriculture has become a deafening roar in Brussels, where the European Commission is under pressure from a petition with 1.4 million signatories to revolutionize animal husbandry.

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