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To: Steve Reed, Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Ban cages for British hens
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End the use of cages for all British laying hens by 2027, and ban the import of low-welfare caged eggs to protect our farmers.
Why is this important?
Hens left to rot for days next to injured birds. Entire lives spent in a space not much bigger than an A4 sheet of paper – never seen the sun or felt the earth. Workers caught on camera kicking them, crushing their necks, and tossing them into crates like rubbish.
That’s still the cruel reality for 7 million hens locked in cages across the UK.
Now, we have a unique opportunity to end this industrial-scale torture: the Government has proposed ending the use of cages for British hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask the public if we support a ban.
But big farming lobbyists are fighting back hard to delay the transition. We are so close to ending this suffering – we can’t let the egg industry derail it now. We only have a few weeks left to flood the consultation with our voices, and give the Secretary of State a powerful public mandate to stand up to the mega-farms.
Please sign this petition to ban cages for British hens, and share it far and wide – every name added will be submitted to the official consultation.
Affordable food doesn’t have to come at the cost of animal welfare. In fact, major UK supermarkets and household brands have already switched to cage-free eggs – from Co-op to Sainsbury's, and from Heinz to Hellmann's.
Now the government needs to catch up with these industry leaders and create a level playing field: protecting our farmers from being undercut by low-welfare eggs, and ensuring that British shelves are cruelty-free.
Sign this petition and share it. Let’s flood the consultation with our voices — and bring an end to the cage age.
