Originally Posted by
Goodfellers
They are gassed as a rule. Why would we want to rear male chicks that don't produce eggs. I would have thought that would be obvious. What you need to remember before you get all tearful is that even the female chicks only live for 72 weeks. I would have thought being gassed at birth would be preferable to 72 weeks of a living hell being looked after by money grabbing farmers.
You said it, not me. But some egg producers just throw them into a grinder alive. A real cruelty is involvved with just owning chickens. They have been selectively bred to ovulate 250-300 times per year. Birds in the wild ovulate about 12-20 times a year. This pressure to ovulate puts a huge strain on the bird's body making them calcium dificient and short lived as you have admitted.
If you eat eggs then you are basically condoning this cruelty.
Last edited by Rheghead; 22-Feb-17 at 19:20.
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