France to ban systematic culling of male chicks: minister

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France is to ban from the end of 2021 the hugely controversial but widespread poultry industry practice of systematically slaughtering male chicks, Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume said Tuesday.

"The aim is to oblige firms... to do this by the end of 2021," he told BFM television, expressing hope that a method could be found that works on a large scale to determine the sex of an embryo in the egg rather than as now, after hatching.

Egg production requires the hatching of millions of chicks every year, with the females sold to be raised and exploited by either individual farmers or commercial poultry farms. As a result, producers say the male chicks are not worth the cost of raising to adults and are usually killed, either by grinding up or gassing.

 

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How little city people know about the slaughter of the meat they consume.

The French have found a way to get roosters to lay eggs - cool!

I take this to be layers ? What is their plan for all the layer roosters that there’s no use for & not meat birds ?

now if they only had an age of consent

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