02 Sep 2009
Video shows chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery

Ah, the joys of factory farming ... this is pretty much SOP throughout all of agriculture, not just chickens. Lorraine was at a dairy goat workshop a year ago where they advised just clubbing newborn buks to death at birth rather than "waste" resources keeping them alive and selling them for meat later on. Too much "trouble".

This is not the way we do things around here, and I don't deal with suppliers or others that do things this way. And when I think of all the good meat wasted in the grinder, it makes me want to retch. Capitalist efficiency, indeed. So much for "economy of scale" - it's apparently only economic if you waste half your output.

AP - An animal rights group is calling on the nation's largest grocery story chains to post warnings on egg cartons that unwanted male chicks are ground up alive, after videotaping the common industry practice at an Iowa egg hatchery.

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