Let's move towards an era definitely without cages!
Let's take part in the CIWF European Citizens Initiative to put an end to the breeding of animals in cages !
Cages must become a vague memory of an old barbaric era ! Let’s all take part in the European Citizens Initiative launched by CIWF to end the breeding of animals in cages ! One million signatures must be collected, and we are barely halfway there.
The sufferance of life in a cage
More
than 300 million hens and chickens, pigs and sows, cows and oxen are
born, suffer, breed and die in tiny cages across Europe. They will
never feel the grass under their feet, they will never be able to
frolic and play, they will never see the sun above their heads
through the young leaves of spring, nor will they root around freely
through the dead leaves… Instead for
the little ones and for the mothers, concrete floors, permanently
shackled, unhealthy unbreathable air, these are the horrors…
So
many reasons to sides against the use of cages! Ethical, ecological,
sanitary, social …
«The place for animals is not in a cage. No cage, no matter how big and comfortable it is can make an animal happy. But those in which the animals who are to be eaten survive are indecent and cruel. The law of profit can no longer despise the respect and dignity of animals!
»Muriel Arnal, Founding President of One Voice
What is the “ICE”?
One
Voice is one of 130 European associations supporting the Initiative
of Citizens of European (ICE) launched by CIWF with a great fanfare
in Brussels at the end of September 2018.
This
ICE is a procedure that allows the European population to draw the
attention of its representatives to a subject that is particularly
dear to their heart, and gives it a chance to influence decisions. It
is one of the participatory democracy tools of the European Union.
For this, an authenticated signature is required. The approach is
more framed than signing a petition, but the principle is the same
and the data is secure, of course and destroyed at the end of the
process.
We need everyone to get involved !
At
least one million Europeans must sign ICE to have a chance to
permanently put an end to cages, and this throughout the European
Union. What a step forward it would be!
It
remains barely a few months to reach the million signatures, and in
France we are still too few who have signed! This is a cause that
must go far beyond our circles of influence and flood the entire
population! So less than six months from the end of the signature
collection period, it is high time to commit, please sign and get this initiative signed around you, online or in print!
Everyone
should commit to living a life without animals. It’s a decent life
that we have to offer them. It’s really the bare minimum …
To learn more about the
subject, visit the dedicated page and on the networks, spread the
word with #EndTheCageAge!