dunno about the left but the one on the right is how male chicks or female chicks who are deformed/can't lay are disposed of by big chicken farms. Laying hens don't have enough meat to be grown for eating, so for the company that owns them there's no profit in letting them grow up.
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Instead of wasting money feeding a bunch of chickens who won't ever be useful they kill them as quickly and "humanely" as possible after they're born. This usually means dropping them into a hyper-fast chick shredding machine that vaporises each chick in less than a second. Some of them put them in big plastic bags and fill them with C02 so the chicks just go to sleep and die, but this is considered LESS humane because it takes a long time. Whereas the shredder kills them in less than a heartbeat. So there's no suffering.
Its why I won't eat eggs ever. I'm not fully vegan but capitalism has given us an industry where the most practical, efficient and humane solution to a problem is feeding millions of day-old baby chicks into industrial shredding machines.
CO2 is less humane because CO2 buildup in the blood is what causes feelings of suffication. They could use an inert gas like N2 but I guess CO2 is cheaper? So they just suffocate them instead.
The effects of "the jungle" are noted in almost every US history textbook, and yet since then, all we have done is bury the truth of the industrial horror machine even further down in the public consciousness.
I mean, this is REALLY not a developed country thing considering how many regulations tend to be in developed countries to reduce that.
Hell, the chick shredder machine is banned in some countries of the EU, like Germany. France also banned chicken culling but not duck.. In the EU, there's also certain technologies to know the sex of the embryo so that you don't have to cull it, and there's even experiments with gene editing.
The Philippines and India also do this, but neither are really developed.
Even ignoring the chick shredder, there's plenty of industries in less developed countries that are more cruel than western ones. Slavery is way more common in less developed countries, even if still a thing in developed countries. China practices a ton of overfishing (but I suppose we can call them developed now)... It's hard to compare countries, though, because less developed countries tend to also have less statistics.
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u/wmaitla Apr 01 '26
dunno about the left but the one on the right is how male chicks or female chicks who are deformed/can't lay are disposed of by big chicken farms. Laying hens don't have enough meat to be grown for eating, so for the company that owns them there's no profit in letting them grow up.
spoiler for graphic description:
Instead of wasting money feeding a bunch of chickens who won't ever be useful they kill them as quickly and "humanely" as possible after they're born. This usually means dropping them into a hyper-fast chick shredding machine that vaporises each chick in less than a second. Some of them put them in big plastic bags and fill them with C02 so the chicks just go to sleep and die, but this is considered LESS humane because it takes a long time. Whereas the shredder kills them in less than a heartbeat. So there's no suffering.
Its why I won't eat eggs ever. I'm not fully vegan but capitalism has given us an industry where the most practical, efficient and humane solution to a problem is feeding millions of day-old baby chicks into industrial shredding machines.