- Image by JulieAnne Van der Lek at Highway for Souls A better life for Farm Animals France will ban the cruel practice of culling live male chicks by the end of 2021. Germany will do so from the beginning of 2022. An estimated 7 billion chickens are currently killed shortly after hatching. However, new techniques are now available for determining the sex of chickens while still in the egg. France is also banning the practice of castrating pigs without the use of anaesthetics. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is the latest state and the first Australian state or territory to ban factory farming for chickens. It also bans cages for pigs and the debeaking of hens. Tasmania will allow no new battery hen operations from 2013 and is fast tracking legislation to outlaw sow stalls. Eight US states and at least two Canadian ones have banned battery hen farming and EU Member states were to have complied by 2012 and will soon begin to prosecute recalcitrant states. Switzerlan...
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