“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 ...

Scientists in Israel have developed a gene-edited hen that could eliminate the need to cull billions of male chicks every year. Male layer chicks are of no value to the egg-laying industry, since they ...

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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Great news for Sweden’s egg laying hens: no more cages for these birds! The North European country has long been known to lead the world in innovation, and now Sweden has become the first EU country ...

With the words of the UK Government’s Animal Welfare Strategy still ringing in our ears, Jenny Canham reflects how the firm male chick culling ban commitments of Norway provide impetus for real action ...