Why the egg industry shreds newborn baby chicks

Every year millions of baby chicks are born into the egg industry. These chicks have been selectively bred for one purpose - to lay eggs. But obviously only females can lay eggs...so what happens to all the males? Well, according to the egg industry, male chicks and any other chick deemed unfit for egg production are considered waste products and must be disposed of. This has led to the development of a brutally efficient method for killing these unwanted babies - they are shredded alive in industrial macerators.

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[TychoBrahe]

Europe has already figured out a solution to this, this is completely unnecessary. They developed a scanner that can quickly tell which eggs are male and which are female and can separate them, so the male eggs never hatch to begin with, they just stay un-incubated eggs. This is not just much more humane, but it is also much more cost-efficient because you don't have to incur costs for incubating, feeding, staffing, manually identifying chicken sex, incurring a 50% loss of eggs/chicks, etc. With this technology, even the greediest business owner has zero excuse to be inhumane. Europe shows a lot of leadership in animal rights, we need to learn from them.

[mega_banhammer]

Imagine being born just to get spawn killed

[harrylee]

That grinder scene is like a real-world childhood nightmare.

[mridul]

The worse part is that the babies have no damn idea that they are gonna go through such a horrific death

[mlgcat]

The saddest part to me is how the chicks have no idea what’s going to happen to them.

[Eassa]

Another alternative is to keep chickens. I've got 5 myself and they are extremely underrated as pets.

[nickspalace]

They should make a movie about a baby chick escaping one of these factories

[Catto]

Not that I’m vegan or anything but this is really cruel. When I first heard about this my heart dropped and I felt so bad that this happens. And we need to stop such cruel acts 🐥

[GameyGaming]

I think a bit of my soul just left my body after the grinder scene.

[theripoffchicago]

In the comments you care. But at home it’s a different story. Save your crocodile tears.

[finnybrooks]

Recently, me and my grandma have stopped buying eggs from the market and instead get them from my mom who’s raising nine hens herself. The best part of this is that no chicks are killed during the process, but the second best part? Some of the eggs are blue, and we’re expecting pink and green ones soon!

It’s good to know I’m no longer contributing to this horrid cycle, for the most part.

[Javier_Jimenez]

I can’t believe this happening right now. As I write this. We suck as a species.

[queenremi]

I'm a chicken farmer and even I think this act is cruel

[josh]

"Inconvinience to be dealt with"
We humans are really a pain the ass.

[sabaasghar]

Imagine getting killed without even seeing your mom

[reggyrickus]

ok im not vegan but i think this is unfair

[DrRaven-xhnf]

Even though I work as a butcher, this hurt me, I felt it tight in my chest. I refuse to eat eggs that are not from our chickens. I will also don't kill birds under one year old.
Edit: we also have 19 roosters in our flock and they are so sweet and friendly.

[vk]

I feel worse for the hens that live a horrible life 24/7.

[billahforeveryoung]

I think Male Chicks and all the Chicken deserve a better and less harmless productive Life for Humans because I cried after watching this😭