Denmark bans chickens in cages from 2023

Published 2022년 9월 27일

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The Danish Ministry of Food and Agriculture has announced a ban on the production of eggs from caged laying hens in Denmark, effective from 2023. The ban will be implemented over a 12-year transition period for existing producers, and will apply to new farms from the next year. Currently, there are seven producers of cage eggs in Denmark, which account for about 17% of the country's egg production. The decision was made following a unanimous confirmation by the Danish Parliament in 2020, and is part of a larger trend where large retail chains have stopped selling caged eggs.

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The Danish Ministry of Food and Agriculture has decided to ban the production of eggs from caged laying hens in Denmark from 2023. To ensure proper reorganization of farms, the ban will be introduced with a 12-year transition period for producers. existing. For new farms, the ban applies already from next year. The Danish government decided in the fall of 2020 that caged egg production should be phased out, which was confirmed unanimously by the Danish Parliament soon after. There are currently seven producers in cage egg production in Denmark, accounting for almost one in five eggs produced in Denmark. The vast majority of supermarkets have stopped selling caged eggs, but they are still used by restaurants, canteens, food ...

Source: Agrodigital