222.258 VCD Assignment 1: Project Research

I am looking at the inequality male chicks suffer do to the egg industry.

Male chicks are seen as useless to the egg and meat industry due to the fact that they don't reproduce. After a chick sexer (someone who's job is to determine the sex of a chick moments after birth which is incredibly difficult) decides weather it's a male or female, the sexes are separated. The males are then either tossed in trash bags to suffocate, gassed to death, or put on a conveyer belt where they will be grounded alive. These are all common practices by the egg industry.

https://www.peta.org/features/egg-industry-cruelty/

http://freefromharm.org/eggfacts/

https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/egg-industry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-gSoXwFlIE

www.separated.org/us/facts/

http://freefromharm.org/separated/chicken-facts-industry-doesnt-want-know/

Due to genetic manipulation, 90% of broiler chickens (chicken bred specifically for meat production) have trouble walking.
51.4 billion chickens are artificially hatched, fattened up and slaughtered as 42-day-old babies every year globally. A chicken’s normal lifespan is 10–15 years.
Chickens bred for meat are arguably the most genetically manipulated of all animals, forced to grow 65 times faster than their bodies normally would, and the industry continually seeks to increase their growth rate.
Chickens are housed in giant, overcrowded sheds, where they are packed in by the thousands and forced to stand and sit on filthy, manure-laden flooring, which is typically cleaned out only every 2 to 4 years. “Free range” is a meaningless term in this sense, since almost all chickens raised for meat are uncaged.
At the slaughterhouse, chickens are not stunned, but shackled and dragged upside down, fully conscious, through electrified water that paralyzes their muscles so that their feathers will come off more easily after they are dead.

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