After receiving a representation from Mercy For Animals India Foundation, the director of animal husbandry, Hyderabad, has instructed all veterinary and animal husbandry officers and member secretaries of the District Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to direct field officers to monitor use of gestation and farrowing crates in Telangana’s piggery farms. The letter instructs all district societies for prevention of cruelty to animals to ensure compliance with Section 11(1)(e) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, which states that any person who “keeps or confines any animal in any cage or receptacle which does not measure sufficiently in height, length and breadth to permit the animal a reasonable opportunity for movement” is punishable by fine or imprisonment.
After appeals from Mercy For Animals India Foundation and other groups, 18 states—Delhi, Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, Manipur, Mizoram, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Sikkim, West Bengal, and Punjab—have prohibited use of gestation and farrowing crates.
Join us in urging the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and use of gestation and farrowing crates for pigs in compliance with the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.
