Sortons les poules des cages !!! Interdiction de la vente des oeufs de categorie 2 et de categorie 3 / Ban the sale of eggs category 2 and category 3 - eggs from caged chickens

Reclassification of the public petition, not having reached the threshold of 4500 signatures, into an ordinary petition n°1992, on 19-01-2022

Request concerning the continuation of the petition as an ordinary petition

The threshold of 4500 signatures is not reached for the public petition n°1992, on 14-12-02021 - Number of signatures after validation: 631

Validated electronic signatures: 631

The period for signing the public petition n°. 1992 is closed on 09-11-2021 - Number of electronic signatures before validation: 631

The public petition n°1992 is open for signature, on 28-09-2021

Statement of admissibility

The public petition n°1992 is declared admissible by the Conference of Presidents on 24-09-2021

Admissibility: admissible

Start date of the signature period: 28-09-2021 at 0:00 a.m.

End date of the signature period: 08-11-2021 at 11:59 p.m.

The Committee on Petitions issued an opinion positive regarding the public petition n° 1992, on 22-09-2021

Opinion of the Committee on Petitions: positive

The petition public n°1992 is submitted the 02-09-2021

Title of the petition: Sortons les poules des cages !!! Interdiction de la vente des oeufs de categorie 2 et de categorie 3 / Ban the sale of eggs category 2 and category 3 - eggs from caged chickens

Aim of the petition: Le but de cette pétition est d'interdire la vente d'oeufs issus de poules élevées au sol (catégorie 2) et issus des poules élevées en cage ou en batterie (catégorie 3) /

The purpose of this petition is to ban the sale of eggs which are category 2 - deep litter indoor housing and category 3 - cage farming

Motivation of the general interest of the petition: Aujourd'hui, le marquage des oeufs permet d'identifier le mode d'élevage de la poule:

0 - oeufs issus de poules élevées en plein air nourri à base d'aliments issus de l'agriculture biologique

1 - oeufs issus de poules élevées en plein air

2 - oeufs issus de poules élevées au sol

3- oeufs issus de poules élevées en cage, ou élevage en batterie

Ces indications permettent au consommateur de faire son choix. Néanmoins, il faut aller plus loin et arrêter la maltraitance animale. Il est inadmissible que dans un pays comme le Luxembourg, on continue à vendre des oeufs issus de poules qui survivent dans des conditions atroces: des cages dans lesquelles les poules ont à peine de quoi se retourner sur elles-mêmes et ne peuvent déployer leur ailes car son « espace de vie » se limite à l'équivalent d'une feuille A4, des hangars sans accès à l'extérieur, ni même à la lumière naturelle, des bâtiments surchauffés...

Alors sortons les poules des cages!!!

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Living animals deserve to be treated fairly - so do chickens!

We all have seen or read horrific evidence and footage of what goes on behind the closed barn doors.

Today, there is a code on each egg that enables to define the methods of hens raising:

0 - organic egg production

1 - Free-range eggs

2 - Deep litter indoor housing

3 - Cage farming

This indication, if known, enables the consumer to make his/her choice. However, I think that we need to go further and stop unacceptable, cruel, unnatural farming. And it is also unacceptable that in a country such as Luxembourg, we can still buy eggs that were raised in these horrific farms: space available for each hen is just over the size of an A4 sheet of paper and the cage is so low that they cannot stand up straight, they can't even stretch their wings, and there is no windows or natural light.

So let's free hens from cages!!!