The fate of male chicks into the egg industry is certainly controversial. In-shell DNA technology to recognize embryos that are male relieve issues.
Every year it’s one of the most jaw-dropping, least-known facts of American food production: to keep the egg industry running efficiently, hatcheries kill hundreds of millions of newborn male chicks.
And quickly, it might perhaps not take place any longer. A week ago, the trade team United Egg Producers, which represents the majority of the egg industry in the us, announced from ever being born that it is committing over the next four years to new technology that will keep those chicks from having to be killed—by preventing them.
The policy that is huge, that has the possibility to reshape the egg industry, had been negotiated and established because of The Humane League, a tiny farm-animal welfare nonprofit staffed by and focused on millennials. You could understand them since the team that brokered Wal-Mart’s change to cage-free eggs.