{"id":51553,"date":"2022-12-30T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/29\/new-zealand-bans-battery-cages-hens-replacement-just-as-bad"},"modified":"2022-12-30T04:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:00:27","slug":"new-zealand-bans-battery-cages-for-hens-but-replacement-just-as-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51553","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand bans battery cages for hens \u2013 but replacement \u2018just as bad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colony cages are larger but animal welfare campaigners say the birds are still not able to behave naturally<\/p>\n<p>Battery cages for layer hens will become illegal in New Zealand from 2023 but animal welfare campaigners are urging the government to scrap the replacement colony cages, which they say are just as bad.<\/p>\n<p>The plan to ban battery cages has been 10 years in the making \u2013 in 2012, the previous National party government committed to phasing them out by 1 January 2023.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/29\/new-zealand-bans-battery-cages-hens-replacement-just-as-bad\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colony cages are larger but animal welfare campaigners say the birds are still not able to behave naturallyBattery cages for layer hens will become illegal in New Zealand from 2023 but animal welfare campaigners are urging the government to scrap the r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[586,265,41,311,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-food","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51554,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51553\/revisions\/51554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}