International pressure on Sweden to ban cages and fur farming
In a letter signed by eleven leading animal rights and animal welfare organisations, the Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs is urged to safeguard animal welfare. This is to be achieved through a ban on cages and fur farming.
From 2025, there are no longer any caged hens or fur farms in Sweden, but no bans are yet in place. Project 1882 has now initiated a joint letter to urge the Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs, Peter Kullgren, to strengthen animal welfare in Sweden and the EU:
- Ensuring that a national ban on keeping hens in cages is introduced in Sweden.
- Ensuring that a national ban on fur farming in introduced in Sweden.
- Ensuring Sweden’s efforts to secure EU wide bans on keeping animals in cages and on fur farms and the trade in fur products, in line with the End the Cage Age and the Fur Free Europe initiatives, in the very near future.
– Sweden is now in a unique position: cages and fur farms are gone, but the legislation is lagging. The government must update the legislation – partly to ensure that we never have to see those horrific wire cages again in Sweden, and partly to lead the way in the EU, says Benny Andersson, CEO of Project 1882.
In the joint letter, the signatory organisations point out that a ban on cages and fur farming in Sweden would send a clear signal to the EU that animal welfare is a priority in the country. This is important as decisions are expected later this year on the European citizens’ initiatives End the Cage Age and Fur Free Europe. An inquiry is currently underway into how fur farming should be banned in Sweden, but no final decision has yet been reached.
– There is strong momentum to ban these cages right now, and this is legislation that can be introduced quickly, as there is no industry left that needs time to adapt, concludes Benny Andersson.
Alongside Project 1882, these animal rights and animal welfare organisations have signed the letter:
- Anima International
- CAAI, Bulgaria
- Deutscher Tierschutzbund e.V., Germany
- Dierenbescherming, the Netherlands
- Dyrenes Beskyttelse, Denmark
- NOAH - for dyrs rettigheter, Norway
- Obraz, Czech Republic
- The Humane League
- Una Terra Foundation, Hungary
- WELFARM, France
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