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Is this r/peta or is it memes?
Can it be both
No, PETA is a horrible organization. I would go as far as to say they very well might be the definition of virtue signalling. They literally do everything they supposedly claim to stand against.
The reasoning for it is that male chickens are near worthless. They fight and injure themselves and others. They don’t taste very good and most people won’t eat them therefore they aren’t worth the feed to fatten them up for slaughter.
The solution is to kill them as quickly and humanely as possible. The shredder looks bad but they die instantly, no pain, no suffering. Their bodies are then used in products such as dog and cat food.
For others reading that, I’d recommend they look at what it actually looks like before going to the conclusion that it’s humane
That’s actually illegal in Germany since 2019 or so. We now have egg scanners that can determine the embryo’s sex early on and destroy the rooster eggs.
Unfortunately, it does not scale rather well to the high demand in other countries like the US
They have not yet tried to sell the technology to the US egg industry but, even if they did, the volume it can handle is currently too low for this technology to be used to get rid of chick culling across the board.
There’s also evidence to suggest it might not be early enough and that they might still be able to feel pain at that point
One issue that complicates these efforts is the difficult-to-answer question of when an embryo becomes a chick. Some researchers say day seven is when chick embryos can begin to experience pain. If that’s right, sexing the eggs eight to 10 days after incubation as Respeggt does, and 14 days as Agri-AT does, may still end up inflicting pain on the embryo, which could be trading one animal welfare problem — culling — for another
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22374193/eggs-chickens-animal-welfare-culling