Please help stop infanticide !
How can we allow this to go on ? Help stop it NOW!
Millions of male chicks are killed every year by the egg industry, according to new undercover footage from animal campaigners, that shows the tiny birds on a "conveyor belt to death".
The birds are dropped onto a conveyor belt where they are sorted by sex. The males are apparently either thrown alive into electronic mincers or instantly gassed to death.
The females are kept for laying, but only after they have been placed in a machine that clips off the end of their beaks and jabs them against disease.
Viva! visited two hatcheries in Preston. At Tom Barron hatchery they claimed the male chicks were gassed in a giant machine and their bodies packaged to be fed to reptiles. At Fresh Farm Hatchery they claim the birds are thrown directly into a mincer and used for fertiliser.
The birds are sorted for sex according to colour. In the gassing method whole crates of males are put in a chamber and then packaged once they are dead. The mincing or ‘instantaneous mechanical destruction’ is usually a quicker route to death and is widely used in the US.
Both methods are legal and approved by both the Humane Slaughter Association and the RSPCA.
Source: Telegraph
It costs a lot of money to feed and raise poultry. Perhaps it's just cost related..
ohh... how can it b stoppd??
Lucy is just make issue for nothing brit, she is well knows of these , lol ,
Do you believe it is wrong to kill them this way ?
Is there an alternative ?
Nice one brit
God bless them...
Where is Medha Patkar and Arundhati Roy..OMG OMG..call them now...
How will the chicks lay if the males are gassed! hehe
how did Temple Grandin never noticed this?
Ah poor male chicks..:((
Culling i guess is the proper term... :)
Everyone talks about female infanticide, but what about these poor little yellow males ? :O(
Cruel male chickicide :-(
"chickticide". Lol!