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I've been buying no-kill eggs for years now, there are plenty of egg distributors that hatch two-use chickens, the males grow large enough to be edible, the fem
by sveme 6y ago
I've been buying no-kill eggs for years now, there are plenty of egg distributors that hatch two-use chickens, the males grow large enough to be edible, the females lay eggs. Available for years.
I really don't see an advantage of this technology for the consumer, the real advantage lies with the producers.
- La1n 6y ago> the males grow large enough to be edible, It would seem to me these are still killed. Lacto-ovo vegetarians might still prefer no-kill egg as shown in the article.
- gadders 6y agoUnless the chickens are kept after they finish laying eggs, no commercial egg laying is no kill. Most battery or free range hens are killed (or if they're lucky, rescued for home use) at a year old as they approach their first moult.
- ImprobableTruth 6y agoAt the very least it's still less-kill.
- SkyBelow 6y agoHow is it less kill if all the male chicks are raised then used for meat? Same number of chickens being killed either way, some just get slightly longer to live.
- jhasse 6y agoSome die before you have the chance to kill them.
- ImprobableTruth 6y agoI was specifically talking about the method from the OP, where male chicks aren't killed (unless you count destroying the egg as killing them).
- everybodyknows 6y agoA farmer friend told me that as egg production declines due to aging, feed consumption actually increases. This was among the factors that drove a soft-hearted novice chicken rancher of his acquaintance out of the business.
- firethief 6y agoYou don't have to kill them to eat them, as long as you aren't eating all of them. A lot of poultry live in conditions where they have no use for wings or thighs anyway.