Sunday, 6 December 2020

Birds in Lockdown

As a consequence of the Avian 'flu outbreak, British poultry will, like a majority of Covid-19-affected humans, will find themselves in lockdown (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/04/all-hens-and-other-farm-birds-to-be-kept-inside-in-gb-avian-flu-crackdown). Rather weirdly, any eggs produced indoors will still be able to be labelled 'free-range' for another 16 weeks. Actual poultry meat will also be able to use the same epithet for the next 12 weeks. I guess that that means that all the Christmas turkeys this year will be 'free-range?

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