From artisanal pastries to mimosa eggs and ready meals: every year, the French consume an average of 220 eggs per person.
More than 50 million hens are used to produce the approximately 15 billion eggs needed.
In this process, the males, once hatched, were until then crushed or gassed alive, processes that disturbed even the most seasoned hatchery workers.
And which made animal protection associations jump.
Since January 1, these hasty and cruel methods, applied to 45 million male chicks per year, are no longer authorized in France.
The public authorities have required hatcheries to equip themselves with machines to determine the sex of embryos in the egg, and no longer once they have hatched, as was the case until now.
Germany, the second largest producer in Europe, had already abandoned these barbaric processes a year ago.
France, leader in Europe with 15% of production against…
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