[3] Unwanted Males Killed at Birth
At an Iowa hatchery for layer chickens, 150,000 newborn male chicks are shredded every single day. Male chicks born at the hatchery are sent off to slaughter the very day they take their first breath. Workers grab them by their wings, toss them onto conveyor belts, and throw them down a chute for their final moments in a grinding machine, in which they are ground up while they are still alive. All this is a normal procedure and widely accepted at commercial hatcheries within the bounds of animal welfare laws. The egg industry considers male chicks useless because they don’t lay eggs and can’t be raised profitably for meat.
At an Iowa hatchery for layer chickens, 150,000 newborn male chicks are shredded every single day. Male chicks born at the hatchery are sent off to slaughter the very day they take their first breath. Workers grab them by their wings, toss them onto conveyor belts, and throw them down a chute for their final moments in a grinding machine, in which they are ground up while they are still alive. All this is a normal procedure and widely accepted at commercial hatcheries within the bounds of animal welfare laws. The egg industry considers male chicks useless because they don’t lay eggs and can’t be raised profitably for meat.
Video (disturbing!) Unwanted Males Killed at Birth
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Question
Male chicks of egg
layers are culled at birth, and their
sisters are slaughtered once they’ve laid around 500+ eggs.
If you’re in the
chicken business, what would you do with male chicks?
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