{"id":17820,"date":"2022-08-19T05:53:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T05:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17820"},"modified":"2022-08-19T05:53:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T05:53:05","slug":"battery-cage-phase-out-long-overdue-and-far-too-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/battery-cage-phase-out-long-overdue-and-far-too-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery cage phase-out long overdue and far too slow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that today\u2019s announced Australian&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.agriculture.gov.au\/agriculture-land\/animal\/welfare\/standards-guidelines\/poultry\">poultry standards<\/a>, which will phase-out battery cages, are long overdue but provide a far too lengthy transition period out to 2036.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator Faruqi said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe industry has had more than enough time to move away from battery cages. We now need some real action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter years of dragging their feet, the industry does not need up to 14 years to transition away from battery cages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople absolutely do not want hens being kept in battery cages under such cruel and inhumane conditions for another decade or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe use of battery cages is terrible animal cruelty \u2014 there\u2019s really no other way to put it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThousands of people made submissions to the poultry standards review and almost all of them supported a phase-out of battery cages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAustralia is well behind other countries on the international stage and frankly it\u2019s a travesty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that today\u2019s announced Australian&nbsp;poultry standards, which will phase-out battery cages, are long overdue but provide a far too lengthy transition period out to 2036. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThe industry has had more than enough time to move away from battery cages. We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/battery-cage-phase-out-long-overdue-and-far-too-slow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Battery cage phase-out long overdue and far too slow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17821,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions\/17821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}