How one country with small layer farms successfully transitioned out of beak-trimming in a market that prefers cage-free eggs.Animal rights activists in many European countries have made the practice of beak trimming poultry one of their prime targets."There is a big debate about beak trimming in the Netherlands and the U.K. and it has already been banned in Sweden and Norway," said Dr. Knut Niebuhr, assistant professor, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. He told the audience at the International Egg Commission's conference in Vienna that beak trimming is not forbidden by law in Austria, but it is not allowed for shell eggs sold under one of Austria's "label marketing programs."
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