I’m glad you explained why the photo was interesting to you because I didn’t even understand what I was seeing. I knew it wasn’t milk being poured into the pen because it was puffy, but I couldn’t tell what it was. I thought it might be a non-toxic, sanitizing soap to clean the chickens before they were killed to keep bacteria levels lower (city girls!). I had never contemplated how the chickens that I eat are killed. Do they only kill sick chickens with this foam or are all chickens killed this way?
It's how they kill the males.
I believe they only kill sick chickens with foam or with gas. If you search (I can tell you more) but be careful which sites you get your info from, some are vegan sites.
Female chickens are slaughtered at 6-8 weeks. Male chicks are killed within a day of being born. They are useless in the industry as they don’t get very big to the standards people want.
Everything is processed fairly quickly. In the US they are supposed to be stunned or lulled before their death, but who knows.
I don’t buy Costco chicken anymore, let’s put it that way.
Hey my grandmas killed their own chickens. My great-grandma apparently, all 5’ of her lol, could wring a chicken’s neck in a couple of seconds. I think it’s the mass part of the production that gives me pause.
I still won’t eat tofu or crickets.
But to reiterate, the chicken photo was, while not in context with the text, is related to chicken viruses. The chicken virus, Marek’s Disease, is now completely out of control unless chickens are vaccinated. Before the vaccine came out, it was not. Since a virus for bird flu has not come to fruition, when bird flu strikes, it’s goodbye girls.
And my point is, ha, it’s clearer in the morning after a cup of covefe, will these MRNA vaccines do the same??
The poultry in the picture are being destroyed, likely due to disease. They will be composted.
The chickens that you eat are not killed this way. They are stunned and then bled out. Known as meat birds or broilers, both the hens and roosters are processed for consumption at about 8 weeks. They grow very rapidly.
Layers, or chickens that produce eggs, are handled differently. They are sexed when hatched, and the males are destroyed since as Petey said they will not grow well enough to become broilers.