Agriculture and animal husbandry – Animal meal will be back in Switzerland

– Animal meal will be back in Switzerland

A legacy of the mad cow crisis, the ban on these products is about to be lifted with the blessing of all of federal Bern.

Posted today at 5:00 p.m.

Animal meal for pigs? This could be the reality again as early as 2023.

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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) for specialists, “mad cow disease” for the rest of the population. Twenty years ago, this disease, whose variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, could be transmitted to humans, traumatized the consumer. In the aftermath, animal meal to feed livestock was subject to a total ban. It is about to be lifted.

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“At the time, a strong measure was needed to reassure the population. But if they are used wisely, these animal meals do not pose a problem”, explains Jacques Nicolet (UDC / VD). Wisely, this means adapting it to the right animals “those that are omnivorous like chickens or pigs” but also sufficiently heated. “At the time, there was an accumulation of errors”, specifies the national adviser.