Source: Dan Nosowitz, MODERN FARMER, 12/9/21

It’s a big step forward for animal welfare in the egg industry. A significant problem in the egg industry is, well, males. There’s no way to guarantee that chicks will be hens, and thus egg layers, which means the industry is engaged in a truly berserk amount of male chick slaughter. This has been acknowledged as an animal welfare issue for decades, but now Germany will become the first country to officially ban the practice of culling. Several billion chicks are culled each year in the egg industry worldwide; the methods for doing so are very upsetting.

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