EA - EU Food Agency Recommends Banning Cages by Ben West

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EU Food Agency Recommends Banning Cages, published by Ben West on February 21, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Some key recommendations (all direct quotes from either here or here):Birds should be housed in cage-free systemsAvoid all forms of mutilations in broiler breedersAvoid the use of cages, feed and water restrictions in broiler breedersLimit the growth rate of broilers to a maximum of 50 g/day.Substantially reduce the stocking density to meet the behavioural needs of broilers.My understanding is that the European Commission requested these recommendations as a result of several things, including work by some EA-affiliated animal welfare organizations, and it is now up to them to propose legislation implementing the recommendations.This Forum post from two years ago describes some of the previous work that got us here. It's kind of cool to look back on the "major looming fight" that post forecasts and see that the fight is, if not won, at least on its way.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.