This article originally appeared on Undark. 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 ...

Let’s start with some grim news: Every year in America, approximately 300 million male chicks are gassed, ground up, and disposed of, simply because they don’t lay eggs. America’s poultry industry is ...

WILTON — It’s a cruel statistic. Each year, U.S. companies will cull about 350 million male chicks shortly after they hatch, needing only the females to lay the nation’s 94 billion table eggs. The ...

In light of the recent avian flu outbreak at a farm in West Bay and the obvious danger of its spread through Cayman’s feral chicken population, which ...