Ahimsa Crisis You Decide

SR No.: 007754
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sulekh C Jain
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 2016
Total Pages: 328
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, D000, & D005
File Size: 6 MB

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saying, “People have a soul; animals don't. Unlike us, animals are not created in God's image.”
WHAT IS THE FATE OF MALE CHICKS? Another problem inherent with all egg production involves the disposal of unwanted male chicks at the hatchery. Because male chicks won't eventually lay eggs and because these breeds (as opposed to broilers, raised specifically for the production of meat) of chickens don't grow fast enough to be raised profitably for meat, the baby male chicks are discarded shortly after hatching. There is no incentive for producers to spend time and money to euthanize these chicks, which they consider to be a liability. Hence, male chicks are killed by the cheapest and easiest means available. Typically these methods include suffocation or being ground up alive. All egg hatcheries commit these atrocities whether they provide hens for factory farms or “free-range” farms. Recently I came across the following information about the Egg industry; Twelve Egg Facts the Industry Doesn't Want You to Know; By Free From Harm Staff Writers | July 29, 2014 Male chicks are most commonly suffocated or ground up alive. Consider the following 12 egg facts, most of which are common to all forms of egg farming: 1. The global egg industry destroys 6 Billion newborn male
chicks every year. 2. Male chicks born to egg-laying hens cannot lay eggs, and
are not the breed used for meat. Hatcheries separate males from females through a process known as “sexing.” Since males are worthless to the egg industry, they are disposed of like trash, either suffocated to death or ground up alive
in large industrial macerators. 3. Eggs sold under organic, free-range, and humane labels,
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An Ahimsa Crisis: You Decide