UK: Scottish poultry farmers will be banned from keeping chickens in cages

Scotland plans to ban cage-keeping poultry. Experts fear that with the rising costs of keeping poultry, eggs will have to be purchased abroad. According to poultryworld.net, in 2012 Scotland introduced a ban on battery farming of poultry as being cruel and preventing birds from exercising their natural behavior. Now the local government is considering a possible ban on keeping birds in cages, as it is considered cruel, according to a report seen by sfera.fm. There are currently around 1.1 million caged chickens in Scotland, it says. At the same time, the overwhelming majority of the population (88%) considers this method cruel, and 77% of respondents ...