> New technology enables hatcheries to quickly peer into millions of fertilized eggs and spot male embryos, then grind them up before they mature into chicks.
I think the title is quite misleading. They would still end killed, just earlier.
I think the title is quite misleading. They would still end killed, just earlier.
In practice, this doesn't matter to Christians, who believe that all non-human animals were put on Earth for man to do as he pleases with.
https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/bible.show/s...
> The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.
There's also the debate on whether one-day-old chicks are conscious, but I don't know the literature enough to have a strong opinion.
Also, virtually painless doesn't sound like painless to me. It sounds like a nice thing to tell people to convince them grinding up conscious creatures has no negative aspect.
"There's also the debate on whether one-day-old chicks are conscious, but I don't know the literature enough to have a strong opinion."
Why comment if you admit you don't know what you're talking about? There's lots of debate over whether you are conscious. Does that meaning grinding you up is plausibly a nice thing to do?