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March 22, 2021

Billions of Day-Old Chicks Are Shredded, Gassed, and Suffocated

Every year, up to 7 billion day-old male chicks are tossed into shredding machines, gassed, or suffocated in plastic bags—a process known as “chick culling.” This grim ritual is underpinned by both biology and economics: Male chicks don’t lay eggs, and they fatten up too slowly to be sold as meat. Across the globe, culling has become the default strategy for the egg industry to eliminate unwanted hatchlings.


[link:https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/chick-culling-cruel-wasteful-and-tough-stop/618348/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email|

March 18, 2021

Horses in Central Florida are being targeted, slaughtered for their meat, says officials

[link:https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pasco/horses-in-central-florida-are-being-targeted-slaughtered-for-their-meat-says-officials|

Horses in Central Florida are being targeted, slaughtered for their meat, says officials
[link:Horses in Central Florida are being targeted, slaughtered for their meat, says officials|


PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — Horses in Central Florida are being targeted by thieves, and some may have even been slaughtered for their meat.

“Everybody’s watching, everybody’s nervous, everybody’s on edge,” said Brena Kramer.

PASCO NEWS | The latest headlines from Pasco County

Kramer is convinced that’s what strangers, who came onto her property twice in one week, were going to do. She says thankfully they didn’t get that far.

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