BRUSSELS - "We have had overwhelming support from representatives of the main EU institutions".
Thus in a note
the organization Compassion in World Farming (Ciwf), engine of the European citizens' initiative "End the Cage Age", which collected 1.4 million signatures
in a year for the phasing out of cages on farms Europeans, during a hearing in the European Parliament.
In the coming months, the European Commission will give its formal response to the citizens' appeal.
"In line with the ambitions of the European Green Deal and the Farm to Fork strategy, we ask the European Commission to propose the phasing out of cages in agriculture through a revision of the 1998 Directive on the protection of farmed animals," said the
director of Ciwf Europe, Olga Kikou
.
