Almost all Members of the European Parliament who spoke in plenary on Thursday 11 May called for EU legislation to ban the killing of male chicks.
“We should ask ourselves whether purely economic reasons can justify systematic massacres on such a large scale”, said the EU Commissioner for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis. The experience of the ban in Germany and France “helps us to understand the different aspects that such a ban could have and the alternatives available”, he said(see...