if you have read my blog before you'll know i'm vegan (almost. i knit with wool). i've been vegetarian for way more than half of my life and i've been alive for quite a while now.
one of my many theories is the world is a fucked up place because we cannot even treat animals correctly (i.e. humanely) - how the fuck are we ever going to treat each OTHER 'correctly'?
besides sarevil WHO could toss a live chick in a grinder? what sort of person? could YOU?
(the first link is ap so i'm not going to post anything from it. second link is from the group that did the investigation)
Video shows chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery
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.
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