Protecting farm animals

The European Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes (Strasbourg 1976) applies to the keeping, care and housing of animals, and in particular to animals in modern intensive stock-farming systems. For the purposes of the Convention animals means animals bred or kept for the production of food, wool, skin or fur or for other farming purposes, and modern intensive stock-farming systems shall mean systems which predominantly employ technical installations operated principally by means of automatic processes.