As the Christmas and New Years holidays approach, the increase in sales attests to this: foie gras and duck breasts will feature prominently on the tables of the French. Relief for a proven industry. Since the discovery of a first outbreak of bird flu in a poultry layer farm in northern France in late November
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the producers of ducks
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etiennent their breath for fear of a fourth outbreak
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Sixteen farms are now affected by the virus in France, announced Thursday the Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie: eight outbreaks are in the North and eight in the South-West.
The risk is not so much the shortage: the closure of restaurants in 2020 and 2021 has inflated stocks of semi-cooked and frozen foie gras.
But a new massive health crisis among some 4,000 palmipeds with foie gras breeders in France would take on the appearance of a coup de grace for a sector which, since 2015, has suffered a major shock almost every year.
There were the ...
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