The Pros And Cons Of Culling

I have always known that my food came from animals that are not treated the best. As I have gotten older, I have come to realize it is worse than I imagined. After hearing stories on the news and seeing youtube videos of vegans speaking about the topic, I decided it was time to educate myself and stop relying on advertisements. Because I was going off the college and moving out of my parents home, I thought I should become more educated on where my food came from. I had always imagined dairy farms with huge green fields with black and white spotted cows grazing. Although I had never seen it myself, that is what advertising shows consumers like me. I have a feeling that after doing in-depth research about how the animal production industry treats

These companies produce 99 percent of all the hen and egg produced in the United States (Fereira). From the second any chick is born in the production industry it will endure traumas that no human could imagine. When they hatch, they are sorted into male and female bins. In one farm it is estimated that the farm will produce 150,000 male chicks a day. Because males can not lay eggs, they will be killed using a few different methods. The most common method is called “culling,” which is to throw them into a grinder while still alive. Culling does not only happen in factory farms; it is very common for free range and organic farms to do this as well. After being sorted, the females will get the tip of their beak cut off, which is very sensitive. They do this so when the birds are in tight confined spaces, they will not peck at each other out of frustration. Left bleeding from their peak they are then put into crates in which they will never leave for the rest of their life. As they grow, the space with their cage mates gets smaller and smaller as they lay eggs after eggs

Broiler chicken lives are very similar to that of a laying hen. Broiler chickens are used to produce meat, mainly breasts, and thigh. Of our chicken consumption, 99.9 percent of the meat comes from factory farms; so when you buy chicken meat from the store, it is most likely from a factory farm (Zacharias, Nil). In these factory farms broilers are often kept in large sheds with thousands of other chickens; in almost all cases they are overcrowded and only having a square foot of space to themselves (Chickens Used for