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Originally Posted by Nirvana
Is that in the UK?
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Originally Posted by monster
I never heard of that before. i understood the males were the "young whole chickens" sold for roasting and other quality chicken meat, and the females were kept for egg-laying and then ended up in chicken "products" (pies, soup etc)
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Originally Posted by Nirvana
/\WSS and all the dairy cows I know get their breakfast brought to them, then they get their tits washed and massaged. Then they lounge around all day regurgitating, then its time for dinner and another tit wash/massage.
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Male chicks are killed for two reasons: they cannot lay eggs and they are not suitable for chicken-meat production. This is because layer hens — and therefore their chicks — are a different breed of poultry to chickens that are bred and raised for meat production.
Chick hatcheries breed one or the other type of chick depending on which poultry industry they supply — egg or meat. At the layer-hen hatcheries supplying the egg industry, eggs are taken away to develop in industrial incubators. Once hatched, the newborn chicks pass down a production line to be sexed and sorted. Sick or weak female chicks and all male chicks are rejected and then killed.
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RSPCA website. There was a chicken hatchery in the village I used to live in. Many of my friends had worked there at some point.
My comment about cows is not about small local dairy herds, more about factory farming. These cows are artificially inseminated, have their calves removed immediately after birth (which causes visible distress) and are not free to graze, but instead are fed grains to increase milk yield, which are difficult to digest. And of course injected with hormones.
They are milk machines.
Instead of living nearly 20 years they are unlikely to live past 5.
I'm just saying that had that doe been shot, at least she lived a natural life.