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I watched a video once of one of these workers picking chicks out of a conveyor belt - the female ones were dropped back onto the belt, but the male ones were w

I watched a video once of one of these workers picking chicks out of a conveyor belt - the female ones were dropped back onto the belt, but the male ones were wrist flicked into an eviscerating machine. Pretty much turned me off the whole poultry industry at that point. I can't imagine the sort of callous nature one has to foment within themselves to so dismissively handle a living creature then toss it into a machine that will instantly end its life in seconds, for no better reason than being born the wrong sex. I can accept killing as part of the food cycle, but this cold method of one person stamping out hundreds of lives per hour for no real productive gain had me reeling.

phil21 9y ago
> no real productive gain Hmm? I grew up around farms. You do realize roosters (male chickens) are not very productive right? I think these practices are horrible, but I understand that the only reason they happen is due to the productive gain. Even on traditional farms roosters are culled earlier than later, as you only need a handful at most per 100 chickens. The type of operation you describe is typically for laying hens. Roosters of those breeds are not useful.
gowld 9y ago
Is the hypocrisy of outsourcing your killing somehow better than callously doing the killing yourself?