Petition · past parliament
Keep Animal Welfare Codes for Chicken Farming
Rejected
18 signatures
What the petition asks
Environmental secretary Liz Truss has announced plans to:
1. Scrap animal welfare codes for all chicken farming (meat and breeding).
2. Move to industry led guidance - allow the poultry industry to control and write animal welfare codes for all chicken farming.
1. Scrap animal welfare codes for all chicken farming (meat and breeding).
2. Move to industry led guidance - allow the poultry industry to control and write animal welfare codes for all chicken farming.
Farmed chickens are already kept in horrific, crowded and filthy conditions. If the poultry industry is allowed to control and write animal welfare codes for all chicken farming, welfare standards will drop drastically (as the industry is only interested in making money).
Chickens are gentle, sentient beings who need protection. Giving the poultry industry control over their welfare will lead to more animal cruelty and abuse. Please Keep Animal Welfare Codes for Chicken Farming!
Chickens are gentle, sentient beings who need protection. Giving the poultry industry control over their welfare will lead to more animal cruelty and abuse. Please Keep Animal Welfare Codes for Chicken Farming!
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
We think the following petition is similar to yours: The repeal of the code on farming chickens for meat + farming should be debated
Timeline
| 26 Mar 2016 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 31 Mar 2016 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
18
Status
Rejected
Rejected
31 Mar 2016
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