Farmed rabbits in conventional battery cages experience severe welfare deprivation, with a growing campaign for cage-free systems gaining momentum in Europe.
Battery-caged farmed rabbits cannot express most natural behaviors: running, jumping, burrowing, or socializing. The wire flooring injures their feet and prevents comfortable rest. Social isolation denies them the companionship essential to rabbit psychology. Despite the scale of rabbit farming - ranking third in European meat production by numbers - they remain among the least regulated farm animals in terms of welfare standards.