[Kazanne]

This is barbaric!
Campaigners have released undercover footage of a "conveyor belt to death" for millions of male baby chicks killed as part of the egg production industry.

Vegetarian organisation Viva! said some 30 million to 40 million male chicks were killed each year by gassing or being thrown into electric mincers shortly after they hatch because they are the wrong sex to lay eggs.

The covert footage captured at two English hatcheries shows the chicks on conveyor belts, with the males being sorted from the females which go on to become laying hens.

The males are either transported into a gassing machine or go into a mincing machine, the footage shows.

Viva! wants people to stop buying eggs, claiming that while the welfare of the laying hens varies greatly between free-range or organic eggs and battery farming, almost all male chicks born into the egg industry suffer the same fate.

Justin Kerswell, Viva! campaigns manager, said: "This is what the egg industry has kept secret for so many years - and what Viva! has now uncovered.

"They knew that the mass destruction of baby animals simply because they inconvenienced an industry where profit was king would horrify the British public.

"These new-born, uncomprehending male chicks are sorted from females and then either thrown alive into giant electric mincers or gassed in their thousands."

"It is a literal conveyor belt to death journeyed each year in Britain by 30 to 40 million animals, and all to bring the morning egg to our table."

Viva! said it had obtained the images legally and covertly and its findings had been reported to the North West Animal Health Office.

[Smithy]

Is that what goes in chicken nuggets?

[Shaun]

Scrambled x

[Vicky.]

Thats disgusting

[joeysteele]

Horrific.

[InOne]

Don't really eat chicken or eggs

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by InOne

Don't really eat chicken or eggs

After seeing that,I don't think I will be.surely there must be a better way.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

im not being funny but every thread you make is really depressing

[Jessica.]

I am allergic to eggs, I don't eat them.

[Jords]

Aw look at them! Poor things |:

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by kazanne

After seeing that,I don't think I will be.surely there must be a better way.

A better way to do what.

Maybe we could genetically convert all the males to females so they will lay eggs?

Do you think an egg producer will want to reduce their profit margins to allow millions of male baby chicks grow up and have a nice happy life where they are fed and allowed to live free range in a lovely open field with access to a heated barn for inclement weather and overnight?

Gassing is fairly painless and death in a macerator/mincing machine is very quick almost instantaneous.

By the way its not just male chickens it happens to, deformed chicks and slow hatchers are also disposed of the same way regardless of sex.

So as gruesome as it sounds its probably the best way of dealing with an unwanted by product of the egg industry.

[Harry!]

I lay them. Joke

[Harry!]

I have just watched the video, it is trully the most discusting thing I have ever seen in my entire life. I was in tears watching it.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Harry!

I have just watched the video, it is trully the most discusting thing I have ever seen in my entire life. I was in tears watching it.

I didn't watch the video,but I can imagine how horrible it would be

[arista]

Originally Posted by Harry!

I have just watched the video, it is trully the most discusting thing I have ever seen in my entire life. I was in tears watching it.

You need to get more Tough.


That is a Farm Industry.
Its even worse in America


The kids that buy Chicken nuggets - do not care

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lled-year.html


Sign Of the Times

[arista]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Thats disgusting

Yes it is
But its Industrial Level.


Production like that is Normal all over the world.

In China they Eat Cats.

[Livia]

If everyone was more careful about the food they buy, there would be no demand and so there would be no supply. Taking kids to abatoirs and factory farms should be part of the National Curriculum, then at least people would understand the horrendous conditions in which some animals live and die.

[Tom]

We have a chicken that lives in the cupboard under the sink and lays eggs every week

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Livia

If everyone was more careful about the food they buy, there would be no demand and so there would be no supply. Taking kids to abatoirs and factory farms should be part of the National Curriculum, then at least people would understand the horrendous conditions in which some animals live and die.

If people are going to be more careful then its going to have a knock on effect elsewhere because the same amount of food will be coming from different sources. That then means we'd end up with more genetically modified crops etc hence we're back to square one

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i used to have 2 pet ducks did yall know

[Niall]

Thats disgusting. Those poor chicks.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Tom

If people are going to be more careful then its going to have a knock on effect elsewhere because the same amount of food will be coming from different sources. That then means we'd end up with more genetically modified crops etc hence we're back to square one

I get what you're saying, but I think that if people were more aware of how their food is reared and vote with their cash, things will change. I try to buy free range eggs, I buy outdoor-reared meat and it doesn't really cost that much more. It's easier for me because I live in the country now, and it was more difficult in the city, but I really feel we should have more regard for the food we eat. The food that the western world wastes is frightening, maybe addressing that problem might help.

As for genetically modified crops - and I know that's a whole different issue - I think there have been a lot of scare tactics used by the detractors, and it's not nearly as bad as it's been made out to be.