What I Didn’t Know About the Egg Industry Horrified Me

DNYUZ ^ | April 20, 2025 | Sy Montgomery

[Red Badger]

egg-regious Ping!...................

[RckyRaCoCo]

bfl

[Angelino97]

I hate these clickbait titles.

[Jonty30]

I admit that when I think about the male chick’s, I am bothered by their fates.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Henry David Thoreau gave tribute to roosterdom in the intro to "Walden."

"As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." --H D Thoreau

[SunkenCiv]

It’s the Easter our worries.

[BlackVeil]

I feel the same way. I don’t mind the slaughter of livestock, if it’s done properly, but the fate of those chicks is sad. I hope that the technology described in the article will end this.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"They can recognize individuals by their faces, both avian and human"

Like all birds, chickens have excellent eyesight. And they also must have a tiny part of their already tiny brains dedicated to interpreting what they see. Brains about the size of peas.

[William Tell]

I think its possible that humans, especially those who live in the United States, might just become too wealthy.

Just what does this lady do with her egg-laying birds when they no longer lay eggs? Put them in an old-hens-home?

[KarlInOhio]

1. Can’t the farmers just tell the young roosters to lay eggs? Or is sex purely biological?

2. How soon before hatching do these new methods determine the sex?

3. What happens to the eggs of the male chicks? Are they put back into the eggs distribution network?

[Flaming Conservative]

I saw this male chick destruction on a tv show years ago. The grinder is extremely high speed; I doubt those chicks know what hits them. Leftovers probably made into pet food. What’s next -— demanding fishing be outlawed because it causes fish pain and anxiety?

[Organic Panic]

Heck. The animal rights extremists already want to ban bee hives for “enslaving unwilling bees.”

I have never heard a bee complain. And of course they have no idea how the ag crops would be devastated without commercial bee keepers.

[minnesota_bound]

Don’t you hate it when you crack open an egg and there is a baby chicken in it?

Mind you the baby chick does fry up real good.
Add some butter and seasoning and mmm mmm good!

[miniTAX]

“The practice is especially egregious because unlike many baby mammals and songbirds, which are born blind, naked and helpless, newborn chicks are capable little creatures”

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That’s why I am not ‘horrified’ by killing a baby in its mother’s womb (some call it abortion, I prefer the appropriate term reproductive care), I am horrified by killing chicks, especially male chicks. Signed, a vegetarian.

[Trump_Triumphant]

Me too.

[miniTAX]

In SE Asia, incubated duck eggs at about 12 to 18th day are common food. You can even find them in most Asian stores in Western countries. Boiled and eaten oeuf-a-la-coque way, with salt, pepper and some fresh herbs, they are quite good in fact.

[Jonty30]

That’s what they do in the Phikippines.

[Clutch Martin]

A poultry farmer I knew years ago caponized the males, set the females to laying, and raised the capones for meat... I found them to be a bit on the tough side, probably because he didn’t raise them to be what used to be known as “Southern Fryers.”

When those capones are raised free range they toughen up, there’s no way around it, except restricting the movements... which is probably cost prohibitive. I like eggs better anyway, less fuss to bring it to the table.

[Pocketdoor]

Price of chicken wings says otherwise.