As of January 2012, the European Union Council Directive 1999/74/EC, which was mistakenly referred to as the battery cage cancellation for the last 12 years, came into force. But what was entitled by animal rights activists as the cancellation of the worst factory farming practice, turned out to be merely a rebranding, the name was canceled but not the cages. Now, amazingly similar imprisonment structure is called enriched colony system instead of battery cages but it is actually trading one cruel metal cage system for a slightly less horrible metal cage system.

For more information about the EU Directive and about and the Enriched Colony System please go to:http://onlyonesolution.org/multimedia-articles/the_worlds_worst_prison.html