14 DAY TRIAL // The state of Kentucky in the US is making progress towards becoming a tad more animal-friendly. Long story short, it has recently decided to outlaw the use of cruel veal crates.
Media reports say that the ban concerning the use of cramped crates to raise calves has been issued by the Kentucky Livestock Care Standards Commission, and is expected to go into full effect by the year 2018.
Once this happens, farmers will be legally required to no longer keep calves in cramped crates that make it impossible for them to even turn around, let alone enjoy some freedom of movement.
Animal rights activists were quick to congratulate the state of Kentucky for its decision to ban cruel veal crates, but also said that more needed to be done to limit animal abuse.
Thus, they maintain that the state must also ban the use of gestation crates for breeding pigs, and the practice of cutting off the Tails of dairy cows.
“The commission made important progress by banning cruel veal crates, but it has a lot more work to do to fulfill its mandate of creating meaningful standards of care,” Pam Rogers with the Humane Society of the United States said in a statement, as cited by Ecorazzi.
Furthermore, “Kentucky should move quickly to ban the pork industry’s confinement of mother pigs in metal cages so small they can’t turn around and the cutting off of dairy cows’ tails.”