Why the egg industry shreds newborn baby chicks
2020 ж. 2 Қар.
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Every year millions of baby chicks are born into the egg industry. These chicks have been selectively bred for one purpose - to lay eggs. But obviously only females can lay eggs...so what happens to all the males? Well, according to the egg industry, male chicks and any other chick deemed unfit for egg production are considered waste products and must be disposed of. This has led to the development of a brutally efficient method for killing these unwanted babies - they are shredded alive in industrial macerators.
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I don't wanna stop this lmao
So sad :(
That's so awful, how can you like that stuff
@@aldemar843martes8 uh ok
I love all birds❤️
Europe has already figured out a solution to this, this is completely unnecessary. They developed a scanner that can quickly tell which eggs are male and which are female and can separate them, so the male eggs never hatch to begin with, they just stay un-incubated eggs. This is not just much more humane, but it is also much more cost-efficient because you don't have to incur costs for incubating, feeding, staffing, manually identifying chicken sex, incurring a 50% loss of eggs/chicks, etc. With this technology, even the greediest business owner has zero excuse to be inhumane. Europe shows a lot of leadership in animal rights, we need to learn from them.
This is still better than this monstrous killing. Imagine the next generation watching this , what the hell they will think of us 😢
very good! This technology has to spread
Imagine being born just to get spawn killed
To soon dude
@@domd2694 what u sick?
@@mega_banhammer7955 lel
Do you think this to be funny?
@@infinitecanadian nope it's hell
That grinder scene is like a real-world childhood nightmare.
The worse part is that the babies have no damn idea that they are gonna go through such a horrific death
Ikr imagine suddenly going to a belt to be grinded, heart split apart, bones shattered , blood everywhere im honestly near the brink of insanity just to think about that
In the comments you care. But at home it’s a different story. Save your crocodile tears.
The saddest part to me is how the chicks have no idea what’s going to happen to them.
Watching at how chicks have been thrown into shredder its so painful to watch...
Imagine coming out of an egg, as a male chick, breaking your way out, expecting a mother hen, but when you come out, suddenly bad smell and bright lights shine your eyes, blinding you. Then, you are suddenly tossed into a crate, then dropped into conveyor belt, with other chicks, and thinking you’ll go to your mom, until you are dropped in a circular conveyor belt, then some guy suddenly picks you up and carelessly throws you into a grinder and five stacked macerators. You think its just a maze, but when you fall, you suddenly get smashed everywhere, from the neck to the body, to the beak to the legs, down to the butthole, you feel pain for half a second, then suddenly everything blurs for one second then blackouts. And now you are in the male landfill, sometimes with a few female chicks, but many males, unable to turn your head, hear, smell, even move your mouth muscles a single nanometer, and only faintly seeing light come after the blackout, then while your eyelids are open, you blackout again, even though your eye was open! It then turns out you are missing a body, as that body was 3 meters away from you.
I... idk what to say its so cruel
OH GOD WHY DID YOU MENTION THAT😭😭😭😭😭😭
😢😢😢😢😢
Not that I’m vegan or anything but this is really cruel. When I first heard about this my heart dropped and I felt so bad that this happens. And we need to stop such cruel acts 🐥
I feel worse for the hens that live a horrible life 24/7.
Another alternative is to keep chickens. I've got 5 myself and they are extremely underrated as pets.
Help. I have a new hatched chick
Late hatcher. Mother left It's only a day old Edit: It died after 3 days
I dont know how to get it to eat. Thankfully it grew accustomed to my voice and hands Edit: It died
Because they're not pets.
dont play with your food
I'm a chicken farmer and even I think this act is cruel
what do you do then with the male chicks ?
I let them grow for about 5 to 6 months then I butcher them
I think that instead of killing them as babies, they should sell them to the meat industry when the chickens are adults.
Do you give them space to move of pack them?
@@UCt7z4WN-yMyGqDvczlTFXiQ yes they get rotated out of pastures every 2 weeks
Recently, me and my grandma have stopped buying eggs from the market and instead get them from my mom who’s raising nine hens herself. The best part of this is that no chicks are killed during the process, but the second best part? Some of the eggs are blue, and we’re expecting pink and green ones soon! It’s good to know I’m no longer contributing to this horrid cycle, for the most part.
"Inconvinience to be dealt with" We humans are really a pain the ass.
I think a bit of my soul just left my body after the grinder scene.
go vegan then
@@b.henriques9871 that doesn't fix it. Just buy chickens and their eggs that were treated well and that were not hurt during their lives
Yes
@@lynxone9434 that literally cuts the source. It fixes it
after knowing that they are babies who were just born and didn't do anything to deserve something like that... that scene traumatized me so much..
I have four adult hens and five chicks. These birds are like family and we try to take great care of them. This is how we contribute to lowering the demand for these things.
well goody for you, now go find a rainbow.
I think Male Chicks and all the Chicken deserve a better and less harmless productive Life for Humans because I cried after watching this😭
Imagine being born, just to die like a couple minutes later. Truly sad.
Even though I work as a butcher, this hurt me, I felt it tight in my chest. I refuse to eat eggs that are not from our chickens. I will also don't kill birds under one year old. Edit: we also have 19 roosters in our flock and they are so sweet and friendly.
That shredder and seeing that one chick fall in by itself completely unaware of where it’s mom or what’s happening, just to get shredded to pieces.
And they say we don't live in a dystopia 😂
ok im not vegan but i think this is unfair
Yeah
I would literally do anything just to save a few babies... They mean so much to me. Its sad how many innocent souls are being lost at the hands of people who find them "an inconvenience"...
This type of behavior leads to animal hoarding.
@@RK831 Is it considered hoarding when they're happy and healthy?
@@antler9927 um yes
@CT-2307 what misery would they be in?
animals dosent have souls in any religion wtf xD
They should make a movie about a baby chick escaping one of these factories
This is almost as brutal as the IRS
The egg industry is disgusting, I’m glad I keep my own chickens in my back garden and they produce my eggs
The word disgusting applies to pretty much any big industry. Nothing special about egg industry except that a byproduct happens to be cute and fluffy.
I can't wait to have my own chickens like you!
I am crying and shaking this is messed up I have chickens and I don’t have them for there eggs and they put them in a shredder how could they do such and thing force chickens to lay eggs i wish I could do something but I can’t
LET.ME.EAT.MEAT. iTS NOT A CRIME
@@powerpuppy7217 Who said that you aren't allowed to eat meat?
The problem isn't the consumption of eggs, it's the lack of regulations and/or enforcement of standards of ethics in the production. When a country puts corporate profit over ethics is the problem the product or the priorities?
My heart is ripped to million shreds. These little creatures do not deserve what's happening to them and l can't believe this horrific scene recurs every day like why why whyyyy!!
This can literally make me cry. These are concious creatures 😢
I am shocked at this. I'm a chicken and quail farmer and I've never even heard of such a thing. my farm is in north Cyprus and we keep all our animals until they die naturally or until they are culled for meat. our male egg layer chicks are kept for 8 weeks then sold as breeders or meat. we have learnt to determine male from female by the egg shape and its very successful. so we need not do this inhumane culling of chicks.
I think one of the other ways to solve this is to shorten supply chains. Reduce demand yes, but if you keep your own chickens locally or know someone who does, the demand can be met much more humanely, and laying hens often lay WAY more than a single family can use. (Freezing also keeps them fresh for longer and makes no difference in baking.) Shopping locally at farmer's markets is a good idea in general, too. Industrial agriculture is one of the biggest problems for the planet, and egg substitutes just shift demand to another industry focused on profits through monoculture. It's a hard issue we have to tackle together with our neighbors. Good luck out there.
I agree, especially with that egg laying part. I’ve got five hens at the moment, only three are laying so far, and we’ve got at least four or so cartons of eggs in the fridge so far just from them this last month or so.
Excellent well thought out and formatted comment, I hope more people in this section read it.
I agree. So many people have pets and care deeply about animals. I think it is only fair for them to consider having chicken in their backyard
This is one of the many reasons to PLEASE support your local farmers market for eggs and other produce.
Unfortunately, most local farmers would have acquired their laying hens from breeders who would have had to sex their chicks and kill the males.
Well, at least they go fast
Yeah at least they don’t have to experience hell anymore
And I thought animal abuse was illegal
It isn't considered animal abuse if it's animals that are used to give food
@@wesleiesamm6477 I mean it could be if those chicks are killed in that manor and haven't even lived for a day.
@@wesleiesamm6477 it is animal abuse many farm owners get sued/arrested for killing these chicks in inhumane ways
Sadly, no. In fact, the vast majority of animals in Australia are explicitly denied legal protection from cruelty. You can learn more about this here: animalsaustralia.org/issues/codes-of-cruelty.php
@TheMacel66 this happens everywhere unfortunately
Keeping chickens as pets is underrated Idk they just make me so happy and I can’t explain it but just get a chicken
And remember to do your research!
But I don't like chickens. I'd rather get a bearded dragon or a crocodile.
@Thebirb_5562 yeah Ik. They are very underrated pets
I believe this shredding is a cruel and inhumane practice. Imagine the pain that they feel and the screams coming from their beaks. I have. six hens and no roosters because my city will not allow us too. I love my poop machines and won't ever give them up even after they get older.
@@claraspinosaurus866 It is your priority to have a bearded dragon or a crocodile. Don't knock down people who love their chickens.
Support local farmers
This is when I realize we humans are truly monsters These creatures are purely innocent and don’t deserve this, we have to stop this After all they are living, breathing, thinking beings that feel pain I believe the only way to stop this is to spread the message and let the world know. Come on people spread the message save these animals
*"out of the shell and into hell"*
Heaven
@@tronnzy3692 yes ❤️
David X yea like they did nothing wrong
@@tronnzy3692 I think they meant the grinder is hell.
@@nithen8179 Same. They're tasty but I hate alive chickens.
Need to bring back local farmers to stop this kind of abuse
I can’t even believe this is a thing, absolutely horrifying.
I hate being a human but at the same time I’m so glad I’m a human
I watched a documentary of why the males chicks are shredded. The resulting "paste" is used to feed minks, sable and other animals used in the fur industry.
Eww.
Then we kill those minks for fur.
My back shivers and my heart skip the beat when chicks falls to the grinder.
Imagine getting killed without even seeing your mom
This world is so cruel 💔
Just freed all my chickens in my XP farm after the grinder scene
LOL
That scene made me improve my chicken farm....I kinda use pistons to open a hatch the another push them off a ledge to kill them from fall damage. Pushed off like 50 chickens at a time.
@@samuelbranthwaite1901 hmmm ill have to test that out also
@@samuelbranthwaite1901 chickens can’t take fall damage mate
@@dillanfishman5427 was just messing about I know they don't. I haven't even made the contraption.
how could they hurt something so cute
Hurt? You. Mean kill
Because humanity is no more 😭😭😭😭. Only demons are left😭😭😭
@@tanushagarwal6975 becuase you all eat chicken
I hate baby birds.
@@BreadV I don’t know why people get mad, chickens are raised to get killed and made into some juicy fried chicken
Here in india another horrific thing happens and its real They drop those chicks in different dyes and sell them for nearly free to kids to play with The kids cannot care them but get about 20 of them for like 10 cents so after a week of starving and mistreatment the chicks meet their fatal end...
My mom has about 20 hens she hatched and she gets about 12 eggs a day which is too much for us, we live in a small town of like 300 people 😅so everyone kinda just buys our eggs farm to fresh and no killing envolved, huge open pen and they roam free half the day 🤷🏼♂️ I suggest buying from local places like this maybe consider getting your own hens and maybe hatching eggs 🙏 it’s an amazing thing and is very good knowing no chickens will die!
She hatched 20 hens? Surely she has 20 roosters as well, right?
I wish I could rescue those new-born baby chicks. That foul treatment has got to stop! That is animal abuse/cruelty. 😢😣😭😞.
Yes
In my humble opinion being killed instantly is better than a life imprisoned in crowded cages.
How about neither of these? wtf?
I mean I guess but there both bad so sorta 😕
Guys guys hear me out... what if we incubate eggs and start raising chicken for our egg consumption? People get pet cats and dogs all the time
@@rephaelreyes8552 Like they only matter
@@rephaelreyes8552 yeah that's a good idea. Chickens are pretty cool guys to have around too.
No, the only way to stop this kind of thing is to bring them to court or try get a lawsuit against them. Cause you not eating eggs doesn't matter, there will always be more people buying eggs, so actually do something and not just go "oh, im nit buying any eggs cause they will lose money" yes, they will, but only 0.00000002% of it. Speak not act, you got to force your opinion harder instead of taking the lazy route of doing it.
Timbers: Shivered. Eyes: Liquid Soul: gone
In Kindergarten we had chicks and this one chick who had brown on his head unlike the others, he was my favorite! I named him Corn and he would always just sit in my hands while the other chicks were treated unfairly by my classmates. I’ve always had a thing with animals.But Corn was just special! I really regret letting him go😭 I don’t know if he’s still alive but if he is I hope he is the happiest chicken in the world! If he’s not I hope he’s the happiest chicken in heaven because that’s where him and all animals deserve to go!
Cool
Hey does anyone know how we can destroy that factory
@@abdalrahmanamrmostafa1975 Sadly no... We were only like 4 or5 years old. So we were very dumb. And some classes had ducks
@@abdalrahmanamrmostafa1975 Good luck trying. This is reality. Eggs are a staple of most of the populations diet and also if u somehow did destroy this factory, you’d be sent to jail and also put a huge blow to the economy
@@abdalrahmanamrmostafa1975 yeah tell us
Seeing this makes my heart tear apart. These guys have no heart for these poor, helpless, cute chicks. We definitely need to put a stop to animal abuse
I mean this is some how legal
@@Hanz_M I'm an Indian and ye my mum has many chicks and adults and my mum will only kill them when they'll funny be grown into adults and yeah other than that my mum and dad takes care of the chicks really good and I don't even know what I'm talking about ;-;
While eating eggs for breakfast right ?
what about the poor , helpless, unborn humans?
@@akforlife2423 ik but good humans actually help the children but not the children of another species
Usually only psychopaths or sociopaths feel nothing when hurting animals to the point of death. Sadly they’re just seen as objects.
I don't think that eating fewer eggs will stop this practice. It will reduce production and increase the cost of eggs. But if the majority of the world eats eggs, then this is inevitable. Raise your own chicken.
How can someone be this evil? Money and greed just makes humans into monsters.
Calling humans monsters are an understatment we do much more evil than monsters
@@Boredmf09 this is why there is something that is trying to kill us
That true
The people running these places are biden supporters
we were born as monsters. Look at nature.
This is why you need to find a local farmer to support
Christians who say every lives matter but don't see this.
I am no vegan, but this is actually sad. Seeing those baby chicks hit the grinding was too sad man.
What is sad is that these chicks were the lucky ones. The ones that got out easy. the ones they keep are bred and live entire lifetime of Pain and suffering
I am a chicken farmer and I find this practice totally inhumane
This is totally inhumane and we should be putting into and they should divide chicks out even if there’s too many
Yes, but you are not a chicken farmer for a high demand factory. I am vegan and even I know the difference between having 100 chickens and millions of chickens and the costs to keep all of them.
I bet you don't raise enough chickens to make demand.
Okay I understand you incubated more chicks than you needed, or some baby chicks are not up to the best quality or you don't have enough demand for the market, then kill them at least in a humane way, or just sell them at the local market at a very low price.
@@mohammadtahsinkamal5208 This is the most 'humane' way to kill them. What suggestion do you have that would be more humane? Btw, I am a vegan so clearly I am against this, I am just curious.
OMG THEY’RE SO ADORABLE!!! 🥺 Why can’t people just put the baby males back in the wild where they belong instead of killing them for absolutely no reason?? This world is fucked up.
Hey Amelia. Egg laying chickens are bred commercially and would not be able to survive as wild animals. Millions of male chicks are killed every year as a waste product of the industry. It would not be viable or possible for this many chicks to be rehomed or released. The only way we can stop this from happening is by not eating eggs. If you would like more information on how we can make the evolution to a kinder world, please join us here animalsaustralia.org/take-action/campaigns-and-investigations/join-the-evolution/
Everybody that feels bad: 😔 Also everybody that feels bad: yo, can I get that 10 piece chicken nugget with a medium fry?
I completely stopped buying eggs altogether and got my own hens. With three birds I got around 20 eggs every week. I have so many eggs that I'm able to share with my family. The eggs also taste different from store bought, their almost buttery. Can't say I'll ever go back to store bought.
Bruh they need to stop spawn killing EDIT:thx for the likes they keep spawn killing still tho
They really need to patch this exploit in the next update
@@playdoughmaster808 LMAO
@@playdoughmaster808 dark humor at it’s finest
Dude and their looting their body’s.
I’ll write a complaint to the devs, maybe a 1 week invincibility period before they’re able to take damage? idk, just a thought
Wait how do they reproduce with no male chickens?
A small number are kept as breeding stock, though usually the insemination is done artificially so it is really a very, very small number. Incidentally this also leads to a genetic monoculture due to the tiny number of males. Chickens are inbred to an unfathomable degree.
God knows
industrialization was humanity’s biggest mistake
That is just sick and twisted animal cruelty. I could never imagine doing that to an animal or anything living for that matter.
Millions of plants are eaten alive everyday by animals.
As a small poultry farmer, this breaks my heart. Egg replacement is not the answer, we do not need more fake food. We must go back to small farm practices and be willing to pay decent prices for good food.
Not everyone can pay those prices. Also several small farms could not produce the same amount as one huge system effectively. Developed nations moved away from agriculture being the main means of labor for citizens.
It is almost inevitable, a price to pay for our need, convenience & progress. Communism is a very good solution, although can also comes at a price.
@@roku_nine How the hell is communism a good option?
@@TinkerTailorSoldier1 i dont think you understand what communism is and how it can sort of prevent/reduce this particular issue. Try googling them. It's not 'perfect' if you compare to our capitalistic society today.
@@roku_nine No, it’s a flat out bad idea. Capitalism is not perfect but it has absolutely done the best so far. Why would you want to switch?
Imagine an animal kingdom where an organism does same to the human beings, sending them to shredders and grinders.
They can also be dumped into nature
It's one thing to turn a blind eye, but it's another thing to be the one to actually carry this out...
It's the same thing
It’s a job for them and they do it to pay the bills. Don’t put the blame on them, it’s the mass corporations that put it into place that are the problem.
@@adamlambboy8332 it's not the mass coorporation, it's us, the people who made the coorporations profit, the hens in my baclyard decided to stop laying eggs so we'te back to store bought ones
@@supermario64rbx no its not. we live our lives and there are certain things we dont see.
I'd do it for minimum wage! Have a blast all day long.
Why not just let them grow up and make them have a painless death for food? This is actually sad to watch, I know It's normal to kill animals for food but this is just horrible.
Because its not worth the cost because people like eating eggs.
@@epiclamp44 I guess
A lot farmers sell this for pet food and fertilizer. None of this stuff goes to waste. It’s just sad to look at for some people. However you really don’t want that many roosters on a farm. They’re super aggressive. They even beat up the hens. This is just mixed information with personal emotion
Industrialisation is hell isn't it.
As an individual who raises chickens, I do not want to be associated with this industry, we don't kill our boy chicks, and all of our girls are spoiled rotten, don't worry about the boys they're all so spoiled and well-loved.
So wasteful Not even the smallest possible amount of respect for the chickens I would be happier if they sold the unused chicks to smaller farmers but what do I know about anything
The egg industry is dumb
Imagine if the uno reverse card worked on actual things. Then humanity would die out. Because it would be babys dead each day and few left alive
What my father told me that they used to give out baby chicks to kids at Easter time and when people got tired of them they dumped them in my grandparent's yard because they had chickens. They kept them and when they started to crow they slaughtered and ate them.
That's the nature. It's the brutal world we live in.
Me too I would get colored chicks, pink, blue, green , for Easter than they used to go to my Italian grandmother.
Wow the grinder scene almost made me drop a tear. That’s so hard to watch. Wow Jesus…..
That part was funny
So, did you stop eating eggs?
@@Ian-pe8sh shut up
@@diogosimoes2401no
@@Ian-pe8sh geeeettt help
A sobering thought while you eat your fried eggs for breakfast.
I am thankful I get my eggs from my home and not the grocery store
I now see scrambled egg differently
I have no words that describe my thoughts of this and I can barely imagine our other so called food sources are brought to us and what those employees might feel about everything else in life. ....
You dont need to imagine look up dominion. It's a documentary that goes over how each of our animals are farmed
THE EGG INDUSTRY NEED TO BE STOPED
Hey Alex! Thanks for your comment The first step on how we can stop this cruel industry is by switching our diets to a plant-based one. Without the demand for cheap animal products, these factory farms will cease to exist. If you would like to discover more on how we can make this world a kinder place for all, please join us here - animalsaustralia.org/take-action/campaigns-and-investigations/join-the-evolution/
Gov't: Person does this, cruelty to animals. Also Gov't: Commercial farmer does this, no big deal. This is horrible.
imagine after millions of years of evolution only to be shredded in a spawn killing machine
Meanwhile I have 16 roosters roaming our property because I’ve been putting off culling them. They were hatched out of our last brood of egg layers. They all have different personalities. Eventually they’ll get it if they get mean. But for now they get to hang out and make a lot of noise for the neighbors. 🤣
that needs to be investigated and stopped
This is disgusting..
why not just sell it, there must be a lot of people who buy and maybe most of them are children...i m so sad they are innocent😭😭
12 million chicks a year....that's a hard number especially since most people live in city's
Just put that kuiken in the blender
Yes I would adopt one 🥺
😹 funny but didn't laugh
I would adopt 20
This is just sad. I wish the male chicks could go somewhere else instead of getting killed.
It's very sad how these folk treat God's creatures very cruelly
Imagine being born and then the next minute you get killed that's crazy 💀💀💀
“Inconvenience to be dealt with” Same with human babies, but do you see us shredding them alive?
Ooooo good idea
Orphanage
''Do factory even have a heart?''
No
No but atleast we got KFC and Popeyes
We dont neer heart we need money we need people eating eggs
Don’t factories employ millions of people and gives them income?
When you work 10 hours 5 days a week in a loud metal box that is soul crushing and management doesn't give an f about you. you tend to lose your heart.
raise your own chickens, or become good friends with someone who does, and you know they’re being treated well, the eggs are also stronger and better tasting/cook better than the anemic eggs from the store.
This is legal and cockfighting isn’t bro 💀