Below as some commonly discussed big ticket policy changes for farm animals in the UK. How would you rank their relative importance? How do you go about making the decisions on what to push?
Legislating for the Better Chicken Commitment as the legal minimum
Banning High Concentration CO2 gassing of pigs
Introducing mandatory tiered animal welfare labelling for meat
Specific fish welfare requirements (e.g. requiring stunning, water quality rules) in legislation
Retaining the ban on allowing insects as feed for pigs and poultry
Banning enriched cages for laying hens and gamebirds and farrowing crates for pigs
Introducing specific minimum legal rules for broiler breeders and layer breeders
Import ban on meat produced using sows in sow stalls or egg products from layers in barren cages
What a great question. This is probably one for a discussion over a coffee but as a general approach we would use the kind of process I have set out above (Nathan Young’s question) which considers scale, severity and duration of suffering against the 5 domains model, and then considers other internal and external factors. However, from that list I would particularly identify the Better Chicken Commitment (particularly addressing fast growing breeds) and legal protections for fish as high priorities.
Below as some commonly discussed big ticket policy changes for farm animals in the UK. How would you rank their relative importance? How do you go about making the decisions on what to push?
Legislating for the Better Chicken Commitment as the legal minimum
Banning High Concentration CO2 gassing of pigs
Introducing mandatory tiered animal welfare labelling for meat
Specific fish welfare requirements (e.g. requiring stunning, water quality rules) in legislation
Retaining the ban on allowing insects as feed for pigs and poultry
Banning enriched cages for laying hens and gamebirds and farrowing crates for pigs
Introducing specific minimum legal rules for broiler breeders and layer breeders
Import ban on meat produced using sows in sow stalls or egg products from layers in barren cages
What a great question. This is probably one for a discussion over a coffee but as a general approach we would use the kind of process I have set out above (Nathan Young’s question) which considers scale, severity and duration of suffering against the 5 domains model, and then considers other internal and external factors. However, from that list I would particularly identify the Better Chicken Commitment (particularly addressing fast growing breeds) and legal protections for fish as high priorities.