British poultry industry alarmed by cage-eggs ban

02-09-2016 | | |
British poultry industry alarmed by cage-eggs ban. Photo: Jan Willem Schouten
British poultry industry alarmed by cage-eggs ban. Photo: Jan Willem Schouten
It started with a petition by a 13-year-old schoolgirl from Sheffield, who wasn’t happy that Tesco, the biggest supermarket in Great-Britain, was still selling eggs from cage-hens. In no time, she collected over 200,000 signatures, forcing Tesco to announce a ban on cage-eggs. Not from today, not even from tomorrow but from 2025. Still, the UK poultry industry thinks it’s all going too fast. Tesco is not the only British supermarket announcing a ban, rather one of the last. Some of its comp


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