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发帖数: 27354 | 1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/07/25/the-movement-to-
free-hens-from-cages-may-be-going-global/
摘要：在动物保护组织和消费者的压力下，美国鸡鸡协会计划在2025年以前基本实现鸡
鸡的走地化。这在维护鸡权方面是个巨大进步，毕竟一生呆在笼子里不舒服，影响生活
质量。
The movement to free hens from cages may be going global
Dozens of American restaurant chains, supermarket chains and dining service
companies have committed in the last two years to ending their use or sales
of eggs laid by caged hens. On Monday, one of the world’s largest food
service suppliers, Paris-based Sodexo, upped the ante, saying it would
switch to cage-free eggs in all its global operations by 2025.
The announcement by a major international company is a sign that the rapid
shift in the United States to cage-free eggs, led by consumers but long
championed by animal rights activists, is going more global. It came after
talks with animal rights groups, as well as an international animal rights
coalition recently formed by The Humane League, a small American farm animal
rights organization that has driven several U.S. companies’ pledges to
swear off eggs from caged hens.
[McDonald’s is changing the eggs we eat]
Sodexo had already pledged last year to use only cage-free eggs and egg
products in its U.S. operations by 2020. The new decision will affect both
liquid eggs and the 250 million shell eggs the company purchases annually
for use at 32,000 schools, hospitals, corporations and other sites it
services in 80 countries.
It’s unclear how many of those eggs already come from uncaged hens. Battery
cages — small wire enclosures whose floors are smaller than a piece of
letter-sized paper — are banned in the European Union, and Sodexo, which
says it generates about 40 percent of its revenues in Europe, said in a
statement that it already uses only cage-free eggs in Austria, Switzerland,
Germany and Belgium. But about half of egg-laying hens in the E.U. are
housed in larger “enriched cages,” and David Coman-Hidy, The Humane League
’s executive director, said Sodexo had agreed to stop purchasing eggs from
farms using those systems.
Eggs laid by cage-free chickens at a farm near Waukon, Iowa. (Charlie
Neibergall/AP)
In a statement, Sodexo’s senior vice president of supply management, Michel
Franceschi, said the company plans to “support and contribute to the
progressive transformation of the whole industry.” He said it would would
“take advice” from the Humane Society, Compassion in World Farming and The
Humane League “to accompany the conversion and the evolution of the local
industry so that by 2025, we will be able to source cage-free eggs from
local producers in each country where we operate.”
[Egg producers pledge to stop grinding newborn male chickens to death]
Stressed-out chickens find relaxation in mood lighting Play Video2:09
Keeping up with the demand for eggs can be stressful, but hens at Woodcock
Farm in Derbyshire are reportedly relaxed, happy thanks to lighting
installations that are specifically designed for chickens' needs. (Reuters)
In February 2015, Sodexo became one of the first large companies to commit
to a totally cage-free egg future in the United States, expanding a previous
policy of using only cage-free shelled eggs to include liquid eggs as well
by 2020. That came after what Coman-Hidy described as a “contentious”
campaign against the company by his and other animal rights groups, and it
was followed by a string of other similar corporate pledges. Aaron Ross, The
Humane League’s campaigns director, said this time, Sodexo seemed “
excited to be a leader” on the issue globally.
“Our hope is that just like we went industry by industry in the U.S., we
can take the same approach and just shift the global practice away from
cages,” Coman-Hidy said in an interview, referring to the Open Wing
Alliance, a coalition he said his organization has formed with 12 animal
rights groups from countries including France, Australia and South Korea, to
focus on taking the cage-free momentum international.
In the United States, increasing consumer concern about how animals are
raised for food has driven demand for meat and poultry that is free-range,
antibiotics-free, grass-fed and otherwise perceived as healthier or more
humane. Last month, Perdue, the country’s third-largest chicken producer,
announced that it would change the way it raises and slaughters chickens,
including by giving them more exposure to natural light, in response to
customers’ animal welfare concerns. | r********1
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