“Stop the slaughter of male chicks”: a slogan that has become a bill. On August 2, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies finally voted on the amendment that theculling male chicks. Awareness campaigns paid off: from 2026, the ban will come into effect in Italy. Finally, male chicks will no longer be mass slaughtered, poor victims of fragmentation for their futility in the food industry. So far, between 25 and 40 million chicks have been killed each year.
A decisive voice for the history of animal welfare laws in Italy.
Animal Equity Italia, the association responsible for the awareness campaign since 2020
All this was made possible thanks to a collection of 100 thousand signatures. The Honorable Francesca Galizia intervened. Thanks to new technologies, farms have several tools to avoid the problem of slaughtering male chicks. An example, in-ovo sex monitoring (before hatching).
A method of selecting unsuitable eggs for the birth of the chicks. In-ovo technologies will save the lives of 5 million chicks every year from 2022. However, it will take a long time for companies to adapt to this technology as it is not yet available to everyone.
Source: Lega Nerd
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