The year 2022 will be the year of the end of crushing and gassing of male chicks, announces Julien Denormandie, Minister of Agriculture and Food.
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"France will thus be the first country in the world, along with Germany, to end the elimination of male chicks. This is a step forward that was long overdue and that we are implementing today," the minister said.
On January 13, 2020, the French and German Ministers of Agriculture and Food brought together professional poultry organizations, research organizations, companies that put alternative processes on the market, technical institutes, and protection associations. animal from both countries at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Berlin.
This seminar made it possible to formalize a bilateral partnership, with a framework for 2020 and 2021 covering both applied research and innovation, and industrial developments.
Work continued in order to put a lasting end to this practice of eliminating male chicks and thus to meet this strong expectation on the part of consumers and animal protection associations. Alternatives to the elimination of male chicks have been put in place in the two partner countries and all hatching companies are making the necessary investments to put an end to this practice.
A new Franco-German seminar was held on Friday July 16 and made it possible to share the progress made and to express the renewed joint will of the German and French sectors and governments to put an end to the systematic elimination of male chicks. throughout the European Union.
In France, the Council of State will be asked at the end of the summer of a draft decree, specifying that on January 1, 2022, all hatcheries must have installed or ordered “sexing in ovoâ€* machines, allowing stop the elimination of male chicks. All machines should be installed and functioning in all hatcheries by 2022.
* Sexing in ovo, also referred to the terms of sexing in the bud or ovosexage, includes various techniques for detecting the sex of a chick embryo while it is still being formed. ■