The European Commission will propose legislation to phase out caged animal farming after a petition gathered more than one million signatures to ban the practice.
Legislation will be introduced in 2023 and could potentially put a stop to caged farming completely by 2027. The European Parliament and the 27 governments in the European Union (EU) must agree to the ban, and individual countries would enforce the rules.
“Animals are sentient beings, and we have a moral, societal responsibility to ensure that on-farm conditions for animals reflect this,” EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said in a statement.
The Commission said farmers would receive subsidies to help them change their farming systems.
