Informed consumers favour tech solutions to end male chick culling

In-ovo sexing systems rapidly scan eggs and determine the sex of the embryo, to prevent the culling of male layer siblings.
In-ovo sexing systems rapidly scan eggs and determine the sex of the embryo, to prevent the culling of male layer siblings.
A few years ago when the public became aware that male chicks at laying hen breeding farms are culled after hatching, the reaction of consumers who heard about the practice was not positive. Consumers generally don’t care that it’s not considered financially worthwhile to raise these males for meat; they just want the culling to stop. A new survey has confirmed this stance among US consumers. Although knowledge of the practice is still quite limited, once they are told about it, they want


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