{"id":367,"date":"2006-06-14T07:03:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T07:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2006-06-14T07:03:58","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T07:03:58","slug":"battery-hen-labelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Battery Hen Labelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/PO0606\/S00133.htm>Care of Scoop:<\/a><br \/>\n<i>Two of New Zealand&#8217;s largest battery hen producers have bowed to pressure from animal advocacy organisation SAFE following calls for mandatory labelling of egg cartons, and say they will label their battery eggs&#8230; <\/i><br \/>\nGood.  About time.<br \/>\nBattery farming of hens is one of the most depressing examples of animal abuse in the name of increased profit, and the fact that it has taken this long and this much campaigning to even get eggs labelled effectively is a sad indictment of industry practices.<br \/>\nOf course, for corporate industry, the profit motive trumps all else, and it can be no other way.  Profit is what companies are for.  The only real check on the profit motive comes from consumer ability to make informed purchasing choices.  For this reason, food and produce labelling continues to be a massively important battleground.  At stake isn&#8217;t just animal welfare, but every aspect of food production in our society, and the attendant impact on our health and well-being.<br \/>\nThere is no good excuse for opposition to effective labelling.  Companies fight it solely because they know their customers would be unhappy if they were better informed.<br \/>\nMy unscientific impressions from travelling are that New Zealand is well behind the rest of the developed world in terms of food labelling.  I hope this development is a sign of pending improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Care of Scoop: Two of New Zealand&#8217;s largest battery hen producers have bowed to pressure from animal advocacy organisation SAFE following calls for mandatory labelling of egg cartons, and say they will label their battery eggs&#8230; Good. About time. Battery farming of hens is one of the most depressing examples of animal abuse in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=367\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Battery Hen Labelling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-5V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}