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In November 2010 the Commission asked the Member States to report on how implementation of the ban on cage rearing was progressing. They use the polyester laminate on the cage to keep it from breaking. This report has not yet been published but it appears that the egg industry is trying to influence the wording of the report so that, in practice, the ban on cages for laying hens would be postponed. Less keen on cages. We have cameras on the cages, of them. Okay, thoughts on Nicolas Cage. More like bars on a cage. The fact is that more and more consumers throughout Europe are calling for a blanket ban on cages.	Housing where the laying hens are kept in cages, one or more in each. On Mauritius, several thousand primates are sitting in cages awaiting their fate. The survivors were put in cages. All those men in cages, like animals. The dogs have to travel in cages. I will not put those kids in cages like animals. It's basically rats running in cages. He says that animals in cages have too much pain.

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In November 2010 the Commission asked the Member States to report on how implementation of the ban on cage rearing was progressing.
They use the polyester laminate on the cage to keep it from breaking.
This report has not yet been published but it appears that the egg industry is trying to influence the wording of the report so that, in practice, the ban on cages for laying hens would be postponed.
Less keen on cages.
We have cameras on the cages, of them.
Okay, thoughts on Nicolas Cage.
More like bars on a cage.
The fact is that more and more consumers throughout Europe are calling for a blanket ban on cages.

Housing where the laying hens are kept in cages, one or more in each.
On Mauritius, several thousand primates are sitting in cages awaiting their fate.
The survivors were put in cages.
All those men in cages, like animals.
The dogs have to travel in cages.
I will not put those kids in cages like animals.
It's basically rats running in cages.
He says that animals in cages have too much pain.