Animal rights activist's video causing a stir in the egg industry.

[SavageOrangeJug]

Thrown, dropped, mutilated, and ground-up alive. This is the shocking reality faced by hundreds of thousands of chicks each day at the world's largest egg-laying breed hatchery – Hy-Line International in Spencer, Iowa.

New hidden camera footage obtained at this facility during a Mercy For Animals undercover investigation gives a disturbing glimpse into the cruel and industrialized reality of modern hatcheries.

The warm, comforting, and protective wings of these newly hatched chicks' mothers have been replaced with massive machines, quickly moving conveyor belts, harsh handling, and distressing noise. These young animals are sorted, discarded, and handled like mere cogs in a machine.

For the nearly 150,000 male chicks who hatch every 24 hours at this Hy-Line facility, their lives begin and end the same day. Grabbed by their fragile wings by workers known as "sexers," who separate males from females, these young animals are callously thrown into chutes and hauled away to their deaths. They are destined to die on day one because they cannot produce eggs and do not grow large or fast enough to be raised profitably for meat. Their lives are cut short when they are dropped into a grinding machine – tossed around by a spinning auger before being torn to pieces by a high-pressure macerator.

Over 30 million male chicks meet their fate this way each year at this facility.

WARNING: Not for squeamish or sensitive individuals.

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[gsvol]

Whoever made the video should go down the same chute.

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

Whoever made the video should go down the same chute.

Why? If you can't handle what you are doing being aired publicly, you might not ought to be doing it.

BTW, I had eggs for breakfast this morning.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Stuff like this I actually side with the animal rights people a bit. I try to buy orgainc, free range chicken. I'm not an animal worshipper by any means and I realize at the end of it all, the chicken is going to die because we're going to eat it, but still.

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

Stuff like this I actually side with the animal rights people a bit. I try to buy orgainc, free range chicken. I'm not an animal worshipper by any means and I realize at the end of it all, the chicken is going to die because we're going to eat it, but still.

I hate to tell you this but, free range chickens are usually purchased as chicks from these same companies.

I agree though. The process could be done a little more humanely. Maybe run them through a carbon monoxide chamber before they drop into the grinder, or something of that sort.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Hence why I said "try". I'm not naive enough to believe everything I get from Whole Foods was brought to us by the Humane Fairies.

 

[jbakes]

people treat human babies.

When babies become sacred, I will start caring about chickens and whales.

 

[Brog]

people treat human babies.

When babies become sacred, I will start caring about chickens and whales.

This post looks like something Colbert would say in his mocking of hard conservatives.

 

[Ohio Vol]

Sofia Vergara once said that, growing up on a subsistence farm and loving animals, she used to pick up the baby chicks to hold them, only to accidentally crush them against her chest.

Not everyone can die while being smothered by Ms. Vergara's ample chest, just as not everyone can die while having five Swedish bikini models in the hot tub with them. Some people have to die in a hospital bed, some chicks have to die in a grinder.