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New technology can save billions of male chicks from yearly slaughter - C C - Jan 2, 2019
Apparently at the embryonic stage they don't qualify as conscious "chickens".
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/billions-of-male-chicks-are-slaughtered-every-year-this-new-technology-could-prevent-that/
EXCERPT: The world’s first no-kill eggs are now on sale in Germany thanks to a new technology capable of determining the gender of a chick before it hatches, potentially putting an end to the global practice of shredding billions of living male chicks per year. [...] male chicks are killed ... because they don’t lay eggs, making it uneconomical to grow them.
[...] That’s where the noninvasive SELEGGT method comes in. The now-patented early screening uses endocrinological gender identification to determine the sex of a chick between 7 and 10 days after an egg has been fertilized. The automated process takes an egg that has been in the incubator for nine days and uses a sensor to check whether the egg is fertilized. If so, a laser cuts a small hole in the eggshell to extract a “minimal amount” of allantois fluid (fetal membrane) from within, leaving the chicks “untouched" and “safe and sound”.
[...] With an accuracy rate of about 98 percent, the test allows fertilized male eggs and unfertilized eggs to be turned into high-quality feed, while fertilized female eggs are put back into the incubation to hatch on the 21st day....
MORE: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/billions-of-male-chicks-are-slaughtered-every-year-this-new-technology-could-prevent-that/
RE: New technology can save billions of male chicks from yearly slaughter - Zinjanthropos - Jan 3, 2019
Really want to save chickens? Then genetically modify them so the bird & its eggs taste like shit.
Quote:Apparently at the embryonic stage they don't qualify as conscious "chickens".
Has this something to do with Vegan philosophy?
RE: New technology can save billions of male chicks from yearly slaughter - Syne - Jan 3, 2019
There does seem to be a significant overlap between vegans and the pro-abortion people.
RE: New technology can save billions of male chicks from yearly slaughter - Zinjanthropos - Jan 3, 2019
A bit off topic but I hear placentophagy is on the rise. I wonder if the unconscious embryo is next? That is before it legally becomes a conscious human being.
RE: New technology can save billions of male chicks from yearly slaughter - confused2 - Jan 11, 2019
Syne Wrote:There does seem to be a significant overlap between vegans and the pro-abortion people.Am I the only one failing to see any connection whatsoever between people who don't eat eggs and people who are pro-abortion?
RE: New technology can save billions of male chicks from yearly slaughter - Secular Sanity - Jan 11, 2019
(Jan 11, 2019 10:36 AM)confused2 Wrote: Am I the only one failing to see any connection whatsoever between people who don't eat eggs and people who are pro-abortion?
Yeah.
RE: New technology can save billions of male chicks from yearly slaughter - confused2 - Jan 11, 2019
SS Wrote:Yeah.I give in - why would people who don't eat eggs tend to be pro-abortion?
RE: New technology can save billions of male chicks from yearly slaughter - Secular Sanity - Jan 11, 2019
Well, I think Syne is just pointing out pro-choice/vegan hypocrisy, but most of them say that they're not against all killing because there are situations where it may be considered necessary and even compassionate.
The connection is liberals. Liberals are more likely to be vegans and pro-abortionists.
RE: New technology can save billions of male chicks from yearly slaughter - Syne - Jan 11, 2019
(Jan 11, 2019 04:18 PM)confused2 Wrote:SS Wrote:Yeah.I give in - why would people who don't eat eggs tend to be pro-abortion?
Wow. What rock have you been living under?
RE: New technology can save billions of male chicks from yearly slaughter - confused2 - Jan 11, 2019
Syne Wrote:Wow. What rock have you been living under?Yeah - I see the logic (now). All lunatics are liberals and all liberals are lunatics. All liberals/lunatics are pro-abortion and vegans are clearly lunatics so they must be pro-abortion. In reality vegans are only 0.5% (or less) of the US electorate so no politician is likely to convert to nuts and berries to win their support.
Syne Wrote:There does seem to be a significant overlap between vegans and the pro-abortion people.On the single issue of abortion - even if all vegans voted - I don't see their likely contribution to the result as being significant.
As far as I am aware the UK isn't 'pro-abortion'. The state will allow (and pay for) abortion on medical grounds.
I think (but don't know) medical grounds include:
I am mentally, physically and financially unable to care for a child - if I fail to terminate the pregnancy by some means I will terminate both myself and the unborn child.
I could check this but I'm not going to.