TEXT: MONIQUE VAN LOON
‘The general public hardly knows anything about chickens’
Rens in front of the poultry house at home in Loon op Zand. They keep slower-growing broilers.
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‘What seems self-evident, not necessarily is. Not for a consumer that takes a piece of chicken on his plate for granted, nor for a young poultry farmer to assume everyone understands what he or she is doing’, says Rens van Berkel. That is why he is a member of Young Poultry People, a group of about 90 young people working in poultry farming in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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