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Revealed: 45 million newborn chicks are gassed or crushed to death in the UK every year - just because they're male
It is one of British farming’s cruelest secrets. Every year 45 million newborn chicks are killed, just to keep a plentiful supply of eggs on supermarket shelves. The cull is of males, gassed or ground up while alive, usually within 12 to 36 hours of …