“Look at where we are now,” said MEP Eleonora Evi (Italy, NI), Co-Chair of the Cage-Free Working Group and Vice-President of the Animal Welfare Intergroup in the European Parliament. “One year to collect 1.6 million signatures. And we made it! We made it across Europe and across parties. Nobody has a magic wand to put an end here and now to this cruelty but we can do it. And if we CAN do it, we MUST do it!”

“You cannot see them, you cannot hear them, locked up behind bars and confined in cages way too small. That is animal abuse,” said MEP Anja Hazekamp (Netherlands, GUE/NGL), Co-Chair of the Cage-Free Working Group and President of the Animal Welfare Intergroup in the European Parliament. “These animals have no chance to develop normally, they don't have a chance to exercise their natural behaviours. That is torture!”

To watch the full videos of all the MEP speakers, see below:

MEP Eleonora Evi (Italy, NI)
MEP Anja Hazekamp (Netherlands, GUE/NGL)
MEP Tilly Metz (Luxembourg, Greens/EFA)
MEP Sylwia Spurek (Poland, S&D)
MEP Manuel Bompard (France, GUE/NGL)
MEP Martin Hojsík (Slovakia, Renew Europe)
MEP Klaus Buchner (Germany, Greens/EFA)
Stefan Eck (former MEP from Germany, GUE/NGL)
MEP Marie Toussaint (France, Greens/EFA)
MEP Catherine Rowett (UK, Greens/EFA)