{"id":10937,"date":"2021-01-20T20:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118595\/germany-be-first-country-end-mass-culling-male-chicks"},"modified":"2021-01-20T20:21:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:21:19","slug":"germany-to-be-first-country-to-end-mass-culling-of-male-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/germany-to-be-first-country-to-end-mass-culling-of-male-chicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany to be first country to end mass culling of male chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"Germany is set to be the first country to ban mass culling of male chicks in the poultry industry, the government said on Wednesday after approving a draft law ending the controversial practice.The measure passed by the cabinet envisages a ban on mass chick killing from 2022 in \u201ca significant step forward for animal welfare,\u201d Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner said in a statement.In many poultry businesses, male chicks are separated from females soon after hatching and shredded or gassed as\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118595\/germany-be-first-country-end-mass-culling-male-chicks\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany is set to be the first country to ban mass culling of male chicks in the poultry industry, the government said on Wednesday after approving a draft law ending the controversial practice.The measure passed by the cabinet envisages a ban on mass &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10959,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937\/revisions\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}