White Paper – Chick and Duckling Killing: Achieving an EU-Wide Prohibition

Published January 11, 2023
Day old female chicks wait to be vaccinated before being shipped to a poultry farm for the next phase of production.
© Andrew Skowron / We Animals Media. Poland, 2018

Every year, 330 million day-old chicks are killed in the EU. Yet, solutions exist to the systematic killing of day-old poultry animals. Read our latest White Paper, published in collaboration with L214, to find out about solutions to achieve a prohibition on the killing of chicks in EU law.

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