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I've seen the videos of the male chickens who go straight into the grinder on hatching, but what happens then? Does it get turns into feed or some other useful
by ChrisRR 6y ago
I've seen the videos of the male chickens who go straight into the grinder on hatching, but what happens then? Does it get turns into feed or some other useful product?
- ainiriand 6y agoPet food, usually. Low grade stock cubes too.
- romanoderoma 6y agoSo the question now becomes: what will they use to make pet food? Given that in US (for example) there are 160 million pets and a cat eats around 200-300 grams of meat everyday, which is more than half of the global World population have at their disposal.
- kgwgk 6y agoUsing horses is also frowned upon...
- TheGallopedHigh 6y agoNot in Europe
- kgwgk 6y agoGiving horse meat to animals is a waste :-)
- ChrisRR 6y agoWhat else are you going to do with a dead horse?
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoSausage
- kgwgk 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_meat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_meat (I was joking, I understand there is less desirable horse meat that can still be used to feed animals)
- raspyberr 6y agoThe article says the chicks are used for reptile food. And now basically the eggs will be used for reptile food instead.
- romanoderoma 6y agoThe meat of 6 billions chicks was needed to feed domestic reptiles? Assuming they weight around 30 grams it's ~1,800,000 tons of meat That's a lot of meat, I didn't know people kept so many reptiles in their homes. p.s. 1,800,000 tons of meat could feed 180,000,000 people in Africa for a year (assuming an average in North and Central Africa of 10kg/person/year which is optimistic for some of the countries there). It's astonishing how much food we waste for silly reasons.
- kgwgk 6y ago> Assuming they weight around 30 grams it's ~1,800,000 tons of meat Check your math.
- romanoderoma 6y agoYep, it's 180,000 tons. Which would still feed 18,000,000 million people in Africa for a year.
- jononor 6y agoA million too much in there, I think.
- romanoderoma 6y ago6,000,000,000 (chicks) * 0.03 (weight of a chick in kg at birth) = 180,000,000 kg 180,000,000 kg / 10 (average meat consumption in North and Central Africa) = 18,000,000 people that could eat for a year.
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- bbarn 6y agoNothing in industry to that scale goes to waste. It makes money, whether in pet feed, animal feed, or stock as someone below mentioned (that's news to me). It may seem unsavory to some but if there were a more profitable use of the chick, it would be used for that. It always amazes me the mental gymnastics people will go through to justify just enough harm in their minds to get what they want (in this case, meat to eat and eggs to eat). Just accept that these things are bred for fuel, and move on, or don't, and be a vegan. Both of those are fine, but to sit in the middle and pick and choose which you kill and justify it to yourself based on cuteness or anthropomorphizing it is silly.