WILTON — It’s a cruel statistic. Each year, U.S. companies will cull about 350 million male chicks shortly after they hatch, needing only the females to lay the nation’s 94 billion table eggs. The ...

Pressure from animal welfare groups and consumer interest in humane farming methods are fueling a quiet international race to develop technology that would end one of the egg industry’s most gruesome ...

Broadcast version by Terri Dee for Indiana News Service reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration Egg producer Kipster recently announced it had failed to meet what was an ambitious ...

Amid the recent, growing opposition to tightly caged hens, another practice in the poultry industry has drawn less notice: All male chicks born at egg farm hatcheries are slaughtered the day they ...

It’s a disturbing practice most Americans probably know nothing about: On the day they’re born, all the fluffy male chicks born to egg-laying hens at hatcheries are gruesomely killed – usually by ...

Amid the recent, growing opposition to tightly caged hens, another practice in the poultry industry has drawn less notice: All male chicks born at egg farm hatcheries are slaughtered the day they ...

United Egg Producers – the industry group that represents producers of 95 percent of all eggs in the U.S. – said it would end the “culling” of millions of male chicks by 2020. Credit: Pixabay Sign up ...