France has said it will ban the controversial but widespread practices of live-shredding male chicks and castrating piglets without anaesthesia, in a move cautiously welcomed by animal welfare activists.
Some 7bn male chicks, unwanted because they provide neither meat nor eggs, are culled around the world every year. Many are ground up alive, others are gassed, electrocuted, or asphyxiated in plastic bags.
France will be one of the first countries to ban the mass culling of chicks using any of these methods, starting next year.
Let’s hope the U.K. follows this decision - could anyone object?
They don't really care do they
Things you find stressful that other people don't notice.