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• July 2021 update: France and Germany banned all chick culling per 1 January 2022 (first countries that practice chick culling in the world to do so), and called on other EU member states to follow suit. Their call was officially supported by Austria, Spain, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Portugal. For a detailed map of Europe, see File:Chick culling laws Europe map.svg.
  • Germany bans male chick culling from 2022. Deutsche Welle (20 May 2021). Retrieved on 25 July 2021.
  • Reuters (18 July 2021). "France bans crushing and gassing of male chicks from 2022". Euronews. Retrieved on 24 July 2021.
  • Julia Dahm & Magdalena Pistorius (21 July 2021). "Germany, France call on EU countries to also ban culling of male chicks". Euractiv. Retrieved on 25 July 2021.
• EU, focus on France and Germany (2019–2020)
  • (30 October 2019). "Le « broyage des poussins » devrait être interdit en France à la fin de 2021". Le Monde. Retrieved on 21 May 2020.
  • AFP (13 January 2020). "Germany, France to push EU to end shredding of male chicks". France 24. Retrieved on 21 May 2020.
  • AFP (28 January 2020). "La France veut interdire la castration à vif des porcelets et le broyage des poussins à la fin de 2021". Le Monde. Retrieved on 21 May 2020.
  • (29 January 2020). "France to ban culling of unwanted male chicks by end of 2021". BBC News. Retrieved on 29 January 2020.
  • France: Caroline Quevrain (28 January 2020). "Quatre questions sur la fin annoncée du broyage des poussins mâles". La Chaîne Info. Retrieved on 21 May 2020. (France apparently not explicitly banning gassing by 2022)

• Australia: (20 July 2016). "Shredding day-old chicks: how Australia’s egg industry works". ABC Online. Retrieved on 22 May 2020.
• Austria: Per 1 January 2023, the Animal Protection Act of Austria added provisions banning the shredding (maceration) of living chicks, and the killing of viable chicks unless for the purpose of feed production. In-ovo sexed eggs could be destroyed before the 14th day of incubation, requiring anaesthetic if performed between the 7th and 13th day of incubation. Iske, Katrin (8 May 2023). Österreich: Kükentöten und echter Tierschutz passen doch zusammen (in de). DGS Magazin. Retrieved on 10 July 2024.
• Canada: Melanie Epp (19 December 2016). "Hypereye: A game changer". Canadian Poultry Magazine. Retrieved on 22 May 2020.
• Luxembourg: The amended Animal Protection Act (Loi sur la protection des animaux, Deiereschutzgesetz, Tierschutzgesetz) of 6 June 2018 banned the "elimination of animals for exclusively economic reasons", understood as including killing male chicks and male calves in milk production. (It claims to have been the first country in the world to ban these practices, although it appears these did not exist within its borders at the time anyway.)
  • (summary in English) Animal protection in Luxembourg. gouvernement.lu (6 June 2018). Retrieved on 10 July 2024.
  • (legislation in French) Article 12 : Pratiques interdites. Texte de la loi (in fr). Deiereschutzgesetz. Retrieved on 10 July 2024.
  • (explanation in French) Loi sur la protection des animaux (in fr). ma.gouvernement.lu (6 June 2018). Retrieved on 10 July 2024. "Loi sur la protection des animaux"
  • (drafting process of the bill in French) Dossier consolidé. Projet de loi 6994 : Projet de loi sur la protection des animaux. wdocs-pub.chd.lu (6 December 2023). Retrieved on 10 July 2024.
  • (commentary in French) David Hiez (1 May 2024). Une nouvelle loi de protection des animaux au Luxembourg : pragmatisme ou inventivité vague ?. hal.science. Retrieved on 10 July 2024. (page 172)
• India: Several state governments of India have issued statements to all hatcheries within their borders to end all illegal and cruel practices of chick-killing that are in violation of the 1960 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, and/or have committed to adopting in-ovo sexing technology once it becomes available in India. Bahn, Divya (28 July 2020). Stop cruel methods of killing unwanted male chicks: Assam govt to poultry hatchers. The New Indian Express. Retrieved on 12 July 2024.
  sumant. Maharashtra Joins List of States Committing to Adopting In Ovo Sexing Technology to Prevent Killing of Male Chicks (in en-US). Retrieved on 2023-06-29.
• New Zealand: Anne Beston (7 April 2001). "Chick-shredding ordeal shocks unprepared staff". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved on 22 May 2020.
  Catherine Harris (12 June 2016). "Poultry industry hails potential to avoid male chick cull". Stuff (website). Stuff Ltd. Retrieved on 22 May 2020.
• Spain: Aurora Cancela Pérez (27 March 2020). "El sacrificio de pollitos macho en España podría terminar en 2021 según el Ministerio de Agricultura". Crónica Norte. Retrieved on 21 May 2020.
• Switzerland: Vuilleumier, Marie (20 September 2019). Switzerland bans shredding of male chicks. Swissinfo. Retrieved on 19 February 2020.
• Ukraine: (in Ukrainian) (April 2023) Науково-інноваційний розвиток агровиробництва як запорука продовольчої безпеки України: вчора, сьогодні, завтра. Матеріали конференції. М. Київ, 19-20 квітня 2023 р. (Інновації в гуманізації вибракування курчат-самців, "Innovations in the humanisation of male chick culling", pages 129 to 131).
  Про затвердження Вимог до забезпечення благополуччя тварин під час забою та умертвіння (in uk). Official web portal of the Parliament of Ukraine (29 August 2022). Retrieved on 12 July 2024.
• United Kingdom: Louise Gray (4 November 2010). "40 million chicks on 'conveyor belt to death'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 22 May 2020.
• United States: Michael Brice-Saddler (30 January 2020). "France says its poultry industry will stop shredding male chicks alive by 2022". The Washington Post. Retrieved on 21 May 2020.