Abusing Chicks |
Abusing Chicks |
Sep 1 2009, 06:28 PM
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DDR \\ I'm Dee :) Group: Mentor Posts: 8,662 Joined: Mar 2006 Member No: 384,020 |
This is so sad, but I won't give up my poultry or my eggs.
QUOTE An animal rights group publicized a video Tuesday showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa plant and accused egg hatcheries of being "perhaps the cruelest industry" in the world. If I was an employee, I wouldn't be able to throw live chicks into a grinding machine or scald them :( There has to an easier, less cruel way to go about it.
[..] The video, shot with a hidden camera and microphone by a Mercy for Animals employee who got a job at the plant, shows a Hy-Line worker sorting through a conveyor belt of chirping chicks, flipping some of them into a chute like a poker dealer flips cards. These chicks, which a narrator says are males, are then shown being dropped alive into a grinding machine. In other parts of the video, a chick is shown dying on the factory floor amid a heap of egg shells after falling through a sorting machine. Another chick, also still alive, is seen lying on the floor after getting scalded by a wash cycle, according to the video narrator. Mercy for Animals estimated 200 million male chicks are killed a year, which the United Egg Producers also confirmed. "There is, unfortunately, no way to breed eggs that only produce female hens," Head said. "If someone has a need for 200 million male chicks, we're happy to provide them to anyone who wants them. But we can find no market, no need." Using a grinder, Head said, "is the most instantaneous way to euthanize chicks." |
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Sep 1 2009, 06:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Official Designer Posts: 312 Joined: Dec 2007 Member No: 597,269 |
That is really saddening and sadistic.. but your right.. I don't think I would even be able to give up poultry or eggs unless I absolutely had to.
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*Janette* |
Sep 15 2009, 10:56 PM
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Wait where's the video? Part of the reason why I don't eat eggs.
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Sep 15 2009, 10:58 PM
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Live long and prosper. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 10,142 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 514,926 |
oh man. I was skimming. I thought it said they threw the chicks into a grinder. chicks as slang for young girl teenages.
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Sep 15 2009, 11:33 PM
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◕ ◡ ◕ Group: Official Member Posts: 4,779 Joined: Jun 2006 Member No: 416,697 |
when i read the title of this topic, i was excited to read about women getting beat up
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Sep 15 2009, 11:33 PM
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Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,019 Joined: May 2008 Member No: 653,768 |
hope theyre fat chicks.
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