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Some butchers struggle to source chicken. The main reason is the avian flu epidemic, which is highly contagious and has already led to the slaughter of more than 15 million poultry in six months.
In butcher shops, chicken is rare, Wednesday, April 27. “It deprives me, because I really like roast chicken, and I’m always sad to see a carnage,” says a customer. The butcher still won’t have all of his merchandise on Thursday. “I will only have 10 chickens, I have 16 kilos of chicken fillets, a turkey fillet, and that’s it“, he confides. The origin of the shortage comes from the farms.
In one of them, in Haute-Vienne, 10,000 poultry had to be slaughtered. A disaster for the breeder, who does not know when he will be able to resume his activity. “It is the entire sector that is impacted by this national crisis“, explains Frederic Lapeyronie. Chickens, ducks or geese, in six months, more than 15 million poultry have been slaughtered to stem the epidemic of avian flu, a very contagious virus. also equally worried, and sometimes lock up their animals to protect them.
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