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Day-old chicks in grinder

Day-old chicks in grinder

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Started by Diane Smele 10 years, 4 months ago

The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture got great publicity over its decision to ban chick culling in 2015.

Germany was lauded the first country to outlaw the practice of ‘chick shredding’ http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/24/germany-becomes-the-...

Chicken culling is the process of killing newly hatched poultry for which the industry has no use. Methods of culling include cervical dislocation, asphyxiation by carbon dioxide and maceration using a high speed grinder.

According to theaticle, "around half of all chicks born into the egg industry are male, and end up being ‘shredded’ right after hatching.

The practice is commonplace across both caged and free-range egg producers all over the world, and around 45 million chicks are killed after birth in Germany alone."

However, after this ban was announced the Ministry has been digging its heels (no progress so far) and now has retracted its ban to make it voluntary for chicken farms to ban this torturous practice to day-old chicks. http://www.thelocal.de/20160318/berlin-refuses-leg...

Let the Agriculture Minister, Christian Schmidt, know that this is unacceptable to you and sign my petition for an immediate ban on this practice!!

6 Comments

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Kimberly Gough
5 years ago Featured

I’ve already stopped buying commercial chicken and eggs and tell this awful story to all who will listen. Bad karma to capitalize on such cruelty.

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Sabine Pearce
10 years ago Featured

This is nothing but pure evil. How can anyone sleep at night knowing they allow this to happen to tiny living creatures? Absolute shame on you Mr. Schmidt.

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Robert Nowak
5 years ago

Not much has changed since the days of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany-only animals took the place of humans. The methods of mass murder are almost the same as during Auschwitz. Only one thing has changed - the quantity !! During the Second World War, the Germans murdered millions, and now billions of animals are killing in the world. Murder is just always murder - only we humans have granted ourselves the right to kill animals - no one else !! No god, no devil! This is the very sad truth about ourselves, that only man kills out of profit, on a mass, premeditated basis and for pleasure. Movie- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJSWDuAiF8&feature=youtu.be

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Anonymous
6 years ago

Stop mass killing innocent baby chicks!

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Teresa Matlock
7 years ago

Unbelievable!

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Mariah Black
8 years ago

Stop this madness! There are more humane ways to get the things you want!

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