Animal protection group L214 released undercover footage
taken at a hatchery in France, rocking
the nation and pressing 36 members of the French parliament to petition
Agriculture Minister Stéphane Le Foll to move towards more humane standards for
baby chicks.

The undercover video, which shows graphic footage of male
chicks being ground up alive and suffocated in plastic bags, reveals the
sickening secret the egg industry desperately tries to hide: the brutal
slaughter of millions of baby male chicks.

Le Foll was so moved by the footage and the outrage among
French lawmakers, he promised a government-funded project to support scientific
efforts already underway in Germany, which would drastically reduce or even
eliminate the violent slaughter of male chicks.

Mercy For Animals has documented the same appalling practices
here in the United States. Because male chicks don’t lay eggs and chicks of the
egg-laying breed won’t grow large enough to be viable for meat, the egg
industry treats them as mere trash, brutally killing them while they’re still
fully conscious.

Watch MFA’s undercover footage from Hy-Line Hatchery in
Iowa:
Sadly, not a single federal law protects birds during their
entire lives on factory farms.
You can help stop this unnecessary violence by choosing to
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