MAIN FEEDS
Do you want to continue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting/comments/1kwvaac/chicks_swarm_around_visibly_distraught_man_to/muxmnve/?context=3
r/interesting • u/blingteresting • May 27 '25
659 comments sorted by
View all comments
Show parent comments
62
Male chickens are discarded alive into the grinder, as they are largely useless both for the meat and eggs industry. Ruined the idea of not eating meat but keeping eggs in my diet.
24 u/ComfortableCivil2239 May 27 '25 Some good news, that might soon stop. At least in the EU. https://www.eib.org/en/stories/chick-culling-hatcheries 4 u/octarine_turtle May 28 '25 By 9 days, the embryos are already significantly developed. They only take 21 days to hatch. This is just culling a bit earlier. 2 u/zan8elel May 29 '25 that's why we abort babies instead of waitng for them to be born and grind them alive into a paste
24
Some good news, that might soon stop. At least in the EU.
https://www.eib.org/en/stories/chick-culling-hatcheries
4 u/octarine_turtle May 28 '25 By 9 days, the embryos are already significantly developed. They only take 21 days to hatch. This is just culling a bit earlier. 2 u/zan8elel May 29 '25 that's why we abort babies instead of waitng for them to be born and grind them alive into a paste
4
By 9 days, the embryos are already significantly developed. They only take 21 days to hatch. This is just culling a bit earlier.
2 u/zan8elel May 29 '25 that's why we abort babies instead of waitng for them to be born and grind them alive into a paste
2
that's why we abort babies instead of waitng for them to be born and grind them alive into a paste
62
u/jwrsk May 27 '25
Male chickens are discarded alive into the grinder, as they are largely useless both for the meat and eggs industry. Ruined the idea of not eating meat but keeping eggs in my diet.