Right now, 12 million hens are imprisoned in battery cages.

After a 7-year review of the poultry industry, the government’s commitment to a 14-year phase-out is a woeful response for hens. And it is entirely out of step with the public’s expectation of animal welfare.

The NSW Government has caved to industry pressure yet again. A 2036 date for a phase-out means more than 55 million individual hens will be confined to cages without justification. 

A hen in a battery cage lives a life of utter misery. A hell on earth. She can barely move, her claws wrapped around a wire cage, she will spend her entire life with no more space than an A4 piece of paper. And when she is no longer ‘productive’ she will be killed.

This is horrendous abuse on an unimaginable scale.

Sign our petition and demand an end to battery hens now.

We are calling on Minister for Agriculture Tara Moriarty and NSW Labor Government to act now to ban battery cages.

It's time to free hens in NSW. 

Europe phased out battery cages in 2012. New Zealand phased out cages this year, as did 10 other US States.

Why are Australian hens left to suffer till 2036? 

The NSW government can, and should, do better.

We are calling on the NSW Government to commit to a rapid phase-out of battery hens.

Join us and fight for an end to this despicable, barbaric industry.