Does French distribution want to return to grinding male chicks?

Published 2024년 9월 26일

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The French Poultry Confederation (CFA) is worried about the refusal of several retail chains to renew an agreement that covers the additional costs of ovosexing, a method to determine the sex of chicks in the egg, which replaced the grinding of male chicks since January 2023. This practice, aimed at enhancing animal welfare, costs over 45 million euros annually. A November 2022 agreement ensured these costs were covered by consumers through an interprofessional contribution, but it is set to expire soon. Some retailers believe the cost should be distributed across the entire value chain, raising concerns that producers might end up bearing these expenses.

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This is what the French Poultry Confederation (CFA) is asking itself in response to the refusal of several retail chains to extend the interprofessional agreement that finances the extra costs of replacing sexing of male chicks with ovosexing, the sexing of chicks in the egg. Since 1 January 2023, French and German egg producers have stopped grinding male chicks, in order to meet the wishes of consumers and animal welfare organisations. Sexing of chickens and the subsequent grinding of male chicks has been replaced by ovosexing. It is estimated that the implementation of this new rule has an additional cost of more than 45 million euros per year (1.11 euros/ovosexed chicken). In November 2022, the National Committee for the Promotion of Eggs (CNPO), the French egg interprofessional association, reached an agreement so that the cost of egg sexing would not be borne by the producer. An interprofessional contribution of €0.59/100 eggs was agreed, which the packing centres charge to ...

Source: Agrodigital