A man has taken to a cage by the side of the road on State Highway 1 for a month to protest against the treatment of battery caged hens.
Carl Scott was spurred to protest by a draft code issued by the Government's National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee. The draft code called for hens to be housed in “enriched cages”. Scott told the Otago Daily Times that these enriched cages offered each hen only a credit card sized amount of extra space.
The only seating in Scott’s cage is the toilet. Scott said that he planned to leave the cage “only in an emergency”.
Critic suggests that going and egging the poor man while he is trapped in the cage wouldn’t be very kind.
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