ava on Nostr: Happy Birthday Factory Style "Male chicks, of course, have little use in the ...
Happy Birthday Factory Style
"Male chicks, of course, have little use in the manufacture of eggs. So what do you think happens the males? How are the little fellows greeted when, having pecked their way out of their shells, expecting to be met by the warmth of a waiting mother hen, they look around and seek to begin their lives on earth?
'They are, literally, thrown away. We watched at one hatchery as 'chickenpullers' weeded males from each tray and dropped them into heavy-duty plastic bags. Our guide explained: 'We put them in a bag and let them suffocate.''
It's not a picture to bring joy to a mother's heart, but over half a million little baby chicks are 'disposed of' in this fashion every day of the year in the United States. In the seconds it takes you to read this paragraph, over 2,000 newborn male chicks will be thrown by human hands into garbage bags to smother among their brothers, without the slightest acknowledgment that they are alive.
And they are, perhaps, the lucky ones. Because for those chicks allowed to live, the 'life' that follows is truly a nightmare."
— John Robbins, Diet for a New America
#IKITAO #GoVegan
"Male chicks, of course, have little use in the manufacture of eggs. So what do you think happens the males? How are the little fellows greeted when, having pecked their way out of their shells, expecting to be met by the warmth of a waiting mother hen, they look around and seek to begin their lives on earth?
'They are, literally, thrown away. We watched at one hatchery as 'chickenpullers' weeded males from each tray and dropped them into heavy-duty plastic bags. Our guide explained: 'We put them in a bag and let them suffocate.''
It's not a picture to bring joy to a mother's heart, but over half a million little baby chicks are 'disposed of' in this fashion every day of the year in the United States. In the seconds it takes you to read this paragraph, over 2,000 newborn male chicks will be thrown by human hands into garbage bags to smother among their brothers, without the slightest acknowledgment that they are alive.
And they are, perhaps, the lucky ones. Because for those chicks allowed to live, the 'life' that follows is truly a nightmare."
— John Robbins, Diet for a New America
#IKITAO #GoVegan