Question 17579 — breeding

Summary

Mr. Michel Sala alerts the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty on the protection standards concerning free-range farming following episodes of avian flu and the biosecurity standards impacting poultry breeders. On April 5, 2023, the information report from the Economic Affairs Committee on avian flu and its impact on livestock, presented by MM. Fournier and Bolo, highlighted the consequences of an epizootic in 2021 and 2022 having caused the slaughter of more than 22 million poultry, causing more than 1.1 billion euros in compensation expenses insured by the State, equivalent to the economic losses for all sectors. While French free-range breeders only represent around 20% of poultry breeders in France, the latter have been particularly affected by preventive depopulations (slaughter of healthy poultry) and the application of biosecurity standards that are unsuitable for their farms, plunging them into psychological and economic distress. Indeed, precise and demanding rules are detailed in decree AGRG2129005A of September 30, 2021 relating to biosecurity measures and apply to everyone in a preventive manner to avoid the spread of these epizootics to the rest of the territory. However, these standards of biosecurity force open-air farms to align themselves with the standards of the poultry industry, even though they neither share responsibility for the outbreak of avian flu, nor experience the same structural health and economic fragility in the face of epizootics. This difference in exposure to health risk is also attested in the ANSES opinion relating to feedback on the avian influenza crisis. highly pathogenic 2020-2021 (part 3) as of January 13, 2022: only three cases were potentially due to wildlife, compared to 497 due to intensive or industrial breeding. He would like to know whether he intends to take measures to reconsider the regulations governing the poultry industry by giving it a distinct and protective status and thus allowing full recognition of free-range farming in the law.

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