Individual stalls for sows, already outlawed in the United Kingdom and Sweden, will be banned across the entire EU from 2013. Measures to improve the welfare of laying hens, which are typically kept crammed into bare wire cages with no room to stretch their wings, are also being phased in.
接到这份报告后，欧盟确定了禁锢动物禁令的生效日期。禁锢肉牛的禁令定于2007年1月1日生效，而这一日期已经近在眼前。英国和瑞典已经禁止用独立畜栏饲养育种母猪，并且从2013年开始，欧盟所有国家都将禁止采用这样的饲养方式。改善蛋鸡福利的举措也正在实行，在此之前，多数蛋鸡被硬塞进小的可怜的铁丝鸡笼，甚至没有空间伸展自己的翅膀。