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Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:12 PM

URGENT: BATTERY HEN CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

 

 

> Hi everyone

>

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> Animal Liberation Qld continues its battery hen

> campaign

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> URGENT!! PLEASE HELP US THIS WEEK - before 8th

> March

>

> Representatives of AL Qld will meet the Qld Primary

> Industries Minister on Monday 5th MARCH. We need you

> to follow up our visit by contacting the Minister by

> phone, fax or email. Details below.

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>

>

> Brief background to the campaign

> In 1999 all the Australian agriculture/primary

> industries Ministers agreed to implement a NATIONALLY

> consistent system of truth in labelling of egg cartons

> whereby the production method is clearly and honestly

> shown ie. battery cage, barn laid or free range.

>

> This matter is to be discussed this coming Friday

> March 9th by all Ministers at a meeting in New

> Zealand.

>

> The Australian Egg Industry Association has put up a

> proposal to label eggs from battery hens in the

> following way: " Cage eggs are laid by hens housed in

> small, stable social groups in cages protected from

> the elements, predators and their manure " . This is

> untrue and misleading - they are not in stable social

> groups, predators account for very little damage in

> barn and free range systems and battery hens can

> become so thin they can actually free themselves

> through the wire cage end up in the manure pit on the

> floor where they lie awaiting death by starvation. It

> is also proposed that the lettering be very, very

> small (perhaps only 6mm high, so very hard to read)

> and positioned on the carton in a spot the consumer is

> most unlikely to see when choosing a carton.

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> HOW YOU CAN HELP

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> IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE MINISTERS REJECT THE EGG

> INDUSTRY'S PROPOSAL.

>

> Please phone, fax or email the Minister this week to

> insist that this proposal be rejected as misleading.

> Insist that the word " battery " be included, as this is

> how the public understand the production system and

> that the label be clearly visible on that part of the

> carton (top or front side) seen by the consumer when

> looking at the shelves.

>

> The Hon. Henry Palaszczuk

> Minister for Primary Industries

> Ph 3239 3033

> Fax 3229 8541

> dpi

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> PLEASE DO THIS TODAY. IT WILL TAKE LESS THAN 5 MINUTES

> OF YOUR TIME.

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> Thank you

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> Animal Liberation Qld

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