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- Tech aims to block hatching of billions of male chicks fated for culling (2021) https://www.huminnpoultry.com/news/israeli-tech-aims-to-block-hatching-of-billions-of-male-chicks-fated-for-culling/ 93 comments
- Gene tech spares male chicks from cull by preventing them from hatching https://www.reuters.com/science/gene-tech-spares-male-chicks-cull-by-preventing-them-hatching-2023-07-17/ 126 comments upliftingnews
- Egg Industry to End Chick Culling by 2020 - United Egg Producers will now use in-ovo technology instead of shredding male chicks alive. http://www.vox.com/2016/6/9/11896096/eggs-chick-culling-ended 6 comments worldnews
- The sex of chicken embryos can be determined based on volatile organic compounds without opening the shell. At a commercial scale, this could avoid wasteful culling of millions of male chicks after hatching. https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/sexing-chicken-eggs-scent 221 comments science
- Germany approves draft law to end mass culling of male chicks. In the poultry industry, male chicks are gassed or shredded in macerators shortly after birth. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/20/germany-approves-draft-law-to-end-mass-culling-of-male-chicks?cmp=share_androidapp_other 317 comments worldnews
- Germany bans male chick culling from 2022: The federal government has passed legislation to ban the mass killing of male chicks as of January 1, 2022. The decision means that Germany is set to be the first country to ban male chick culling by law. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-bans-male-chick-culling-from-2022/a-57603148 1358 comments worldnews
- A German Grocery Chain Is Selling 1st-Of-Its-Kind “No-Kill” Eggs - Every year, billions of male chicks are euthanized by the egg & poultry industry, but new tech could end the chick culling https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-no-kill-eggs-are-now-available-berlin-supermarkets-180971117/ 454 comments worldnews
- France pledges to outlaw practice of culling unwanted male chicks by end of 2021. Male chicks are viewed in industry as commercially useless, because they are deemed unsuitable for meat production. Most common methods of killing involve asphyxiation by gassing or maceration in high-speed grinders. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51301915 10 comments worldnews