Cold science popularization! In order to make chickens lay eggs efficiently, more than 7 billion chickens around the world are crushed into cat food every year
Today I will tell you the life story of a group of chickens. Eggs are now the most common food in our lives. They are relatively cheap and have high nutritional value, so a large amount of eggs are consumed every day. Eggs are laid by hens, and hens can lay eggs without relying on roosters. So what does a rooster do when she is born?
When I was a child, roosters could still be crowing and act as alarm clocks in rural areas, or some roosters could be used as breeding chickens to breed hens, but in the modern industrial chicken farming industry, small roosters could not lay eggs and basically had no great value. A large number of chicks hatch every day around the world. Theoretically, the proportion of hatched roosters and hens is basically 50% each. So where did they go to so many small roosters hatched every year?
Because the elimination rate of laying eggs is very high, it will be eliminated immediately after the peak egg laying period. Therefore, a large number of new laying hens need to be hatched every day. The hatched little roosters can be said to be extremely miserable from the moment they come out of their shells. As long as they are identified as roosters, they will be not far from the underworld.
It usually takes about 21 days from the birth of eggs to hatching. After hatching, it will be screened by the sorting master of the farm. The master with skilled techniques is called "chicken gender appraisers" in the United States. The annual salary of skilled appraisers is even as high as 80,000 US dollars. The lives of those chickens identified as roosters will be ended. The commonly used methods of handling roosters are mainly high-speed grinder crushing and carbon dioxide suffocation. Some very small amounts of chicks are sent to the zoo as live food to feed animals.
The world uses this method to crush more than 7 billion male chicks every year. Most of these little lives will not exceed half a day from birth to the end of their lives. Most of the pet food we usually buy is made of beef and mutton wreckage, but in fact, many of them are from the chickens produced by the industrialized eggs. The crushed chickens will be made into cat food or other feed. Although it sounds cruel, under the industrialized egg production, the ending of these little creatures cannot be avoided. These little creatures are just organic matter in the eyes of industrialized production.