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France bans live shredding of chickens - anyone object?

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vegansrock Wed 29-Jan-20 07:54:48

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?

Iam64 Wed 29-Jan-20 08:24:04

I don't see how anyone could object to this decision. Yes, I hope the UK follows on.
I'm not vegan but a friend who is, always mentions the way young male chicks are killed, alongside the way female cows are pregnant annually in order to provide us with milk.

I don't find it difficult to understand why veganism is increasing. I try to do my bit by buying local, organic, free range. It's good that these issues are being more openly discussed.

Dee1012 Wed 29-Jan-20 08:30:00

Personally I hope the UK also follows this.
I can see no justification for the cruelty involved.

sodapop Wed 29-Jan-20 08:33:24

I agree Dee1012

annep1 Wed 29-Jan-20 09:34:46

Shicked. I didn't know this happens. Why can it not be done humanely?

lucywinter Wed 29-Jan-20 10:00:23

according to this article by the RSPCA maceration is over in a second. Kinder than the gassing by carbon dioxide.

We can only hope that a way of determining sex whilst still in the egg is developed soon.

Maggiemaybe Wed 29-Jan-20 10:02:07

I hadn’t heard of this, and was shocked to think it happened here. But according to this article, the RSPCA say that most, if not all, male chicks in the UK are killed by gassing, though maceration is still legal. It should be banned.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/male-chicks-killed-gas-eggs-germany-crushed-rspca-a8957211.html%3famp

lucywinter Wed 29-Jan-20 10:02:27

I'm not going to give up eating eggs, but will always buy them from a source known to be trusted in animal welfare.

lucywinter Wed 29-Jan-20 10:03:52

Well, the article I linked to, by the rspca, states that maceration is quicker maggiemaybe.

Maggiemaybe Wed 29-Jan-20 10:07:47

Cross-posted there, lucy winter, and it’s interesting that the Australian RSPCA have a negative view on gassing.

We buy our eggs from the smallholding up the road, where we know they look after their birds.

Iam64 Wed 29-Jan-20 10:11:36

If we don’t become vegan, the best we can do is buy responsibly.

Jane10 Wed 29-Jan-20 10:19:31

What a ghastly thing to even think of doing. Surely the UK won't allow this.

Maggiemaybe Wed 29-Jan-20 10:25:08

The Australian article you link to refers to gassing by carbon dioxide, lucywinter, no longer used in the UK.