Posted on 05/21/2021 11:31:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
Germany has passed legislation that makes the culling of male chicks in the meat industry illegal from January 1, 2022. This makes Germany the first country to ban the mass slaughter of chicks by law.
The meat industry utilizes the products of chickens in two key approaches. One is to raise boiler chickens, females that will gain weight quickly and therefore are considered economically valuable for their meat. The others are egg layers, bred to churn out as many eggs as they can before being recategorized as soup chickens. It’s a system that calls for a lot of females with males only serving the purpose of fertilizing eggs. As such, male chickens are routinely culled shortly after hatching as they aren’t considered an economically viable choice.
In traditional chicken farming, when it comes to the male chicks, an approach to repurpose the young animals into low-quality feed has seen them shredded en masse in previous years. Germany is now leading the way out of this ethically questionable practice, making it illegal to carry out the mass culling of male chicks from next year.
Germany's Federal Administrative Court ruled in 2019 that animal welfare concerns outweighed the economic interests of the industry. Farmers will now have to use an innovative technology that can prevent male chicks from being born by sexing developing chicken eggs. The technique cuts a tiny hole in the shell of developing eggs and tests it for sex-dependent hormones. This way, developing males can be destroyed long before hatching, ending the unethical shredding practice that typically processes around 43 million chicks per year in Germany.
CORRECTION: The writer of the article either can’t spell, or doesn’t understand the process. The chicks that are kept for other than laying eggs, are raised as broilers; not boilers. I don’t know about Germany, but in America, besides going to farms as laying hens, they are raised and fed up to a certai weight, and show up in the food market whole, for roasting in the oven or on a rotisserie, or cut up in pieces for barbecuing or frying, a la KFC, etc.
A transgender Rooster?
Wait no, the Rooster is not coming, she is.
Ah, Germany, where aborting humans is legal, sanctioned, and state funded, but killing unborn chickens is a crime.
If your eating gumbo then your used to eating anything, snake, alligator, turtle etc, An old bird is nothing to a Cajun. Born in NOLA myself. I was born in the countries worst hospital where they left people to die during Katrina.
And of course, if their are enough Cajun seasonings, I’ll eat whatever they put in the jambalaya or gumbo.
Male chicks? You mean trannies?
I ate in a 'steakhouse' in Berlin and I didn't recognize any of the 'cuts' on the menu...............
I saw that, too. But europeans do stuff different than us.
a la KFC, etc.
No wonder their drumsticks look like the chicken starved to death.............
A straight run is males and females, not sexed. Since more females are taking out of the mix there are usually more males in a straight run.
Straight run...Absolutely true. But in the last two purchases of straight run I have gotten all males.
So it appears they have sexed the chicks, sold off the pullets and passed off the males as “straight run.”
Once worked with a guy who was 3rd generation Central Texas German. When he was about 12 years old he got to help men of family process hogs. He was all excited because he was now grown up enough to work with the men. Couple of uncles contributed 2 hogs, Couple of uncles about 4 deer. Small Central Texas deer so 2 deer per hog. Shot in season or out what was important was hog killings weather not the law. First afternoon all equipment set up, scalding tubs etc etc
Hogs slaughtered deer and hogs left to chill overnight. Next day process meat lots of sausage into huge smoker
Some cuts salted some sugar cured. Big part of food for extended family. Towards end of day co-worker’s hands arms shoulders are really sore but everything almost done
Then Uncle says since we have everything set up let’s do 20 or chickens.
Or 30 chickens
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