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Compassionate Teaching and Studies About animals, food, health,
and the environment From All-Creatures.org
Male chicks, of no economic value to the egg industry, are typically gassed or ground up alive
17 June 2008
- USDA, Animal Welfare Issues Compendium, 9/97 - PDF
- Killing Chickens in a Wood Chipper Discussed in The Canadian Veterinary Journal
- The Sad Fate of Male Chicks in Egg Hatcheries
- Egg Hatcheries
- Chickens are excluded from the U.S. Animal Welfare Act and from the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.
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