Meet 15-year-old Dylan
Nauertz. Like most kids, he cares about animals, including his good friend
Richard, a rooster he loves to visit and take care of at Happily Ever Esther
Farm Sanctuary.
Nauertz. Like most kids, he cares about animals, including his good friend
Richard, a rooster he loves to visit and take care of at Happily Ever Esther
Farm Sanctuary.
He was shocked when he found out what the Canadian egg
industry does to millions of male chicks every single year. Because they can’t lay eggs, male chicks are
of no use to the egg industry — so they are ground up alive in giant grinding
machines or suffocated in trash bags when they are just a few days old.
industry does to millions of male chicks every single year. Because they can’t lay eggs, male chicks are
of no use to the egg industry — so they are ground up alive in giant grinding
machines or suffocated in trash bags when they are just a few days old.
See for yourself. Here is a video
showing the standard egg industry practice of grinding up baby chicks:
showing the standard egg industry practice of grinding up baby chicks:
Dylan knew he had to be a voice for chickens like Richard,
so he started this petition calling on Egg Farmers of
Canada to stop grinding up baby chicks.
so he started this petition calling on Egg Farmers of
Canada to stop grinding up baby chicks.
The good news is that there is already a clear alternative
to shredding baby chicks. In-ovo sexing allows hatcheries to determine the sex
of an egg just a couple days after it’s been laid. This new technology is being
adopted by the egg industries in Germany and the United States but not in
Canada.
to shredding baby chicks. In-ovo sexing allows hatcheries to determine the sex
of an egg just a couple days after it’s been laid. This new technology is being
adopted by the egg industries in Germany and the United States but not in
Canada.
Until Egg Farmers of Canada prohibits this horrifying
practice, egg factory farmers in the country will continue grinding up millions
of these tiny, helpless creatures every single year!
practice, egg factory farmers in the country will continue grinding up millions
of these tiny, helpless creatures every single year!
Animals like Richard should not be ground up alive simply
because they’re male.
because they’re male.
