News 1000 Chicks Found Abandoned - UK

40 million chicks on 'conveyor belt to death'

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Alleged undercover footage of a UK hatchery, filmed by vegetarian organisation Viva!, shows the yellow chicks from the moment they are hatched in a massive factory.

The birds are dropped onto a conveyor belt where they are sorted by sex. The males are apparently either thrown alive into electronic mincers or instantly gassed to death.

The birds are sorted for sex according to colour. In the gassing method whole crates of males are put in a chamber and then packaged once they are dead. The mincing or ‘instantaneous mechanical destruction’ is usually a quicker route to death and is widely used in the US.

Both methods are legal and approved by both the Humane Slaughter Association and the RSPCA.