LAV, also present today in hundreds of streets of major Italian cities to ask the Government the confirmation of the announcement in 2012 of battery cages for laying hens (insights on www.lav. it ), respond to the allegations of the President of Avitalia, Gaetano De Lauretis, and A, stating that such notice has been decided by the European Union in 1999 on the basis of clear and unambiguous evidence on the living conditions of hens kept in battery cages. These cages cause hens to the enormous physical and psychological pain, as evidenced by a study commissioned by the Scientific European Commission, called Laywel, which states : "the welfare of hens is severely compromised in conventional cages and these cages do not provide any potential to ensure adequate animal welfare .
In 2005, moreover, ' EFSA, the Authority for Food Safety, in its report had clearly written that "... lack of movement and high levels of osteoporosis, the ruling poses a serious health of laying hens. "
The EU Commission in its report to the Council and Parliament, with which the world took note of poultry in Europe to ban this shameful cages battery, said: "... the battery cages cause many different problems and welfare for the animals are problems inherent in the farming system."
also always in the Communication to the Council and Parliament , the Commission UE ha fatto proprio il parere dell'EFSA secondo il quale: “le galline preferiscono deporre le uova in un nido, possibilmente chiuso e formato da uno substrato premodellato o modellabile. Quindi i pollai dovrebbero disporre di nidi adatti , adeguatamente collocati. Anche bere, mangiare, razzolare e probabilmente fare i bagni di polvere sono comportamenti altamente prioritari. Inoltre, riposare e appollaiarsi sono elementi importanti del benessere dei volatili . Se le galline non possono soddisfare questi bisogni comportamentali primari, le frustrazioni, privazioni o lesioni that result can seriously impair their health and welfare. "
" would be enough to prove these claims as the complaint of the LAV is based on scientific evidence and not on interpretations Part - says Roberto Bennati, vice president of LAV - Avital, however, clearly tell consumers that the enriched cages is talking about, but for which farmers do not meet standards, are not those used by the industry today Italian, that same industry that wants to keep the conventional battery cages, still in use ancorché condannate dalla scienza, dall’economia e dai cittadini”.
“Alle affermazioni dell’UNA (Unione Nazionale Avicoltura) che imputa alla Commissione UE il mancato rispetto degli standard per le gabbie di batteria, la LAV ricorda che il rispetto delle norme in vigore non era subordinato alla relazione della Commissione stessa, che rappresentava, invece, uno strumento per valutare l’impatto di tale applicazione – prosegue Bennati – Le leggi si rispettano e le relazioni sull’applicazione need to see what the rules are applied. And the EU Commission, in fact, widely noted that many EU states, including Italy, they do not. "
What associations of farmers do not say to the people, then, is that they have formally requested and obtained from the Ministry of Health that Italy is opposed to the Italian and European law to maintain a system of farming whose mortality rates are high, cannibalism is considered one of the biggest problems, cutting the beaks of the animals is a necessity, bone fractures and osteoporosis are just some of the pathologies widely distributed.
" Italy has already been referred to the European Court of Justice and has been an infringement procedure by the EU precisely because they have decided, at the request of who today cries shame on the allegations of LAV, to transpose the European directive allowing the installation of conventional cages beyond the period prescribed by the Directive, and considered shameful to have space available to the hens areas inside the cage, in fact expressly not considered spaces available to the hens by the Directive - concludes Bennati - These behaviors are clear violations of the law and the respect due to consumers and, unfortunately, in the purpose of the health authorities have to play. "
March 9 2008
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