India: Court issues notice on hens in battery cages

A court in Chandigarh, the capital city of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, has issued notice to the Governments of India, Punjab and Haryana, the Poultry Federation of India and the Animal Welfare Board of India on a petition filed by the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations against confining egg-laying hens in battery cages. Indian factory farms confine more than 200 million hens in barren battery cages. Each bird lives within a space smaller than a single sheet of pape