Controversy in France over the end of castration

As of January 1, 2022, France plans to ban the castration of piglets. The French Ministry of Agriculture is preparing a ministerial order in which it appears to be a series of exceptions that would allow castration using anesthesia. According to the French agrarian organization Confédération paysanne, the draft currently being handled by the Ministry only includes exceptions in cases in which farmers have a contract with an industry or when an official specification requires it. The vast majority of official specifications, and in particular that of organic farming, do not include it. The Confédération paysanne demands that the list of conditions be expanded, since they consider that castration is necessary in many more cases than those included in the draft order, such as: When pigs are raised outside. In the breeding of local breeds. In longer term fattening. When the farmer does not have a contract with the industry because he makes direct sales. The move is generating a lot of ...