Even though the practice of shredding will no longer be used in Switzerland, instead, the baby birds must be put to death with CO2 gas.
MARIE VUILLEUMIER: ‘Many NGOs have praised Switzerland for being a pioneer on animal rights issues compared with European Union member countries. On Thursday, parliament decided to ban the practise of shredding living male chicks, even though this practise is no longer used in Switzerland. Instead, the baby birds must be put to death with CO2 gas.
The practice’s allowance was a rare exception in the restrictive Swiss animal rights law implemented more than ten years ago. Now, politicians insisted on a formal ban…
“This tendency to rear species only for the production of eggs or for meat turns animals into mere objects. It has led to absurd practices such as the shredding of living male chicks,” the House of Representatives committee noted…
Two options are currently being tested in a trial phase in Switzerland. One sees farmers rearing all the male chicks for poultry meat production. Another pilot project tries to evaluate the use of chickens both for the egg and the meat market’. SOURCE…
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