{"id":68563,"date":"2026-03-03T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/?p=68563"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:44:46","slug":"avian-influenza-outbreaks-up-62-9-in-2025-vs-2024-and-italy-ranks-last-for-chicken-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/avian-influenza-outbreaks-up-62-9-in-2025-vs-2024-and-italy-ranks-last-for-chicken-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian influenza outbreaks: up 62.9% in 2025 vs 2024 \u2014 and Italy ranks last for chicken welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: black;\">Outbreaks reached 699 in 2025, compared with 259 in 2024 (AF Repubblica, 2 March 2026).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">In this context, it is worth noting that the leading restaurant and fast-food chains in Italy \u2014 Autogrill, Burger King, Ikea, KFC, Starbucks and Subway \u2014 perform worst in all of Western Europe on chicken animal-welfare standards, despite chicken being a core ingredient across their menus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">They also rank second-to-last among the seven countries assessed in the league table, level with Poland and only narrowly ahead of Romania.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_media_grid grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1772530558020-17ca3b30-ae66-8&#8243; include=&#8221;68565,68564&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Outbreaks reached 699 in 2025, compared with 259 in 2024 (AF Repubblica, 2 March 2026). In this context, it is worth noting that the leading restaurant and fast-food chains in Italy \u2014 Autogrill, Burger King, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-68563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-protection","tag-animal-welfare"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68566,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68563\/revisions\/68566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}