“Every hour, across the world, around 742,000 freshly hatched male chicks are born. A few hours later…” they are killed. The males are obviously of no value to the egg-laying sector of the egg economy ...

Let’s start with some grim news: Every year in America, approximately 300 million male chicks are gassed, ground up, and disposed of, simply because they don’t lay eggs. America’s poultry industry is ...

It’s a particularly gruesome part of the chicken industry: When chicks are born at hatcheries, the males are immediately thrown in grinders and “live-shredded” to death, or killed by suffocation or ...

The mass culling of male chickens may eventually be a thing of the past, the BBC reports, because scientists claim they’ve gene edited hens to lay eggs which can be stopped from developing male ...

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