“UK Mass Lobby Day to End Cages on the 21st October” by eleanor mcaree

On Tuesday, 21st October, a coalition of UK animal advocacy organisations (UK Voters for Animals, Animal Equality UK, The Humane League UK, Animal Rising, and Open Cages UK) is hosting a mass lobby day in Westminster to advocate for banning cages for farmed animals in UK.

The opportunity: We're aiming to bring 100+ UK residents[1] and voters to Parliament for meetings with their MPs about legislating to ban cages for farmed animals. The UK still confines millions of animals to cages each year: egg-laying hens, farrowing crates for sows (mother pigs), individual calf pens, and cages for other birds.

This is a critical time in the UK, with the Government currently drafting their animal welfare strategy, a recent debate in Parliament about banning cages, high public support for our ask, and our closest trading partner, the EU, has signalled their intention to ban cages.

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First published:

August 27th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EajDyGEmzLR2DQWGZ/uk-mass-lobby-day-to-end-cages-on-the-21st-october

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