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What I Didn’t Know About the Egg Industry Horrified Me
DNYUZ ^ | April 20, 2025 | Sy Montgomery

Posted on 04/19/2025 10:16:23 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: SunkenCiv

21 posted on 04/20/2025 1:54:30 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Red Badger

Think I will have two chicken placentas for breakfast.


22 posted on 04/20/2025 1:54:46 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Red Badger

Maybe we can get the dykes to stop culling men. Or at least to stop castrating them!


23 posted on 04/20/2025 1:56:27 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Clutch Martin

I’m used to Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rock hens. One year I purchased 200 white high production hens from the hatchery.

They out produced the other breeds, but had no meat on their bones. They were so skinny it was not worth cleaning them for soup.

Generally, the really good layers do not make good meat birds. Notice the resemblance to human females. 😁


24 posted on 04/20/2025 2:03:40 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Red Badger

Vegetarian but eats cackle berries?

Hmmm.


25 posted on 04/20/2025 2:39:16 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Jonty30

They are quickly killed.


26 posted on 04/20/2025 2:40:45 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Red Badger

Roosters usually are terrible creatures. After a few run ins frankly they cannot blend them fast enough for my liking.


27 posted on 04/20/2025 2:43:07 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

I know they are killed quickly enough to comprehend their end. It is just one those things that us city slickers have trouble in the area of husbandry.


28 posted on 04/20/2025 2:54:08 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I can promise I can land any plane that is in the air, because gravity only moves in one direction.)
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To: William Tell

Bet she’s pro abortion though. After all people have less value than livestock.


29 posted on 04/20/2025 3:04:37 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Red Badger

Crazy chicken lady.


30 posted on 04/20/2025 3:24:32 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Red Badger

Well that was gruesome


31 posted on 04/20/2025 3:37:03 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Red Badger
newborn brothers faced a gruesome fate shared by 6.5 billion male chicks around the world each year. These male birds can’t lay eggs but also aren’t raised for meat. Because they come from egg-laying breeds, they don’t grow big or fast enough to be used for food. So they are ground up alive or gassed to death. ... When they are thrown into the grinder or gasser at 1-day old, these male chicks are alert and aware.
The good news is that a new technology can help end it. Called in ovo sexing, it determines the sex of the chick embryo long before it hatches, allowing the producers to get rid of the male eggs and hatch only the females. ... Some machines can determine the sex of the chicken embryos by analyzing a small sample of the contents of the egg, rather like prenatal embryo testing for humans.

What is new here is here? The gender of an embryo is determined at the moment of fertilization, when the sperm's X or Y chromosome pairs with the egg's X chromosome. Among the reasons of convenience for abortions in approx. 96% of cases, is that parents do prefer the sex of the child. Get rid of the male or female fertilized eggs. Or they later try to raise such contrary to biology.

The nest and egg of a migratory bird is protected by law however.

32 posted on 04/20/2025 3:46:14 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: Clutch Martin

Wow, Al was named after a tough chicken.


33 posted on 04/20/2025 3:50:54 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Red Badger

No more post-birth chick abortions!


34 posted on 04/20/2025 4:10:15 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Flaming Conservative

Oh, those poor, poor worms!!


35 posted on 04/20/2025 4:14:08 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan ( )
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To: Red Badger

It’s a chicken... good for eggs or eating or nothing. The latter you get rid of.


36 posted on 04/20/2025 4:17:09 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Red Badger

Ok, so maybe I’m farm stupid, but I thought that male chickens which become roosters as I’ve been told can be “capons” which are neutered. They become big and fat and good eating. So, if I’m not too far off, why don’t they do more of this instead of destroying the chicks?


37 posted on 04/20/2025 4:18:13 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan ( )
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To: Red Badger

Communists hate industry.


38 posted on 04/20/2025 4:48:57 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Red Badger

Hard to take seriously a woman who gets fulfillment by chickens with outstretched wings, and one sitting on her head. She is a knucklehead.


39 posted on 04/20/2025 4:54:14 AM PDT by healy61
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I hate these clickbait titles.

Chickbait. They grind up chicks for bait.

40 posted on 04/20/2025 4:57:18 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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