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German chicken farmers are switching over to white hens in growing numbers, meaning that the brown eggs long familiar to German consumers could disappear from supermarket shelves in the coming years. "We are already seeing fewer and fewer brown eggs today, and soon there will probably be none at all," said Henner Schönecke, chairman of the Association of German Egg Producers. The trade group said that brown eggs currently account for about 30% of the eggs on regular supermarket sh...

German agriculture minister Julia Klöckner has proposed that products containing eggs must carry information on the housing system used for laying hens, but many of her European colleagues voiced concerns about the red tape this could entail.