{"id":35096,"date":"2017-03-06T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/germany-becomes-the-first-nation-to-ban-chick-shredding"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:47:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:47:29","slug":"germany-becomes-the-first-nation-to-ban-chick-shredding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/germany-becomes-the-first-nation-to-ban-chick-shredding","title":{"rendered":"Germany Becomes The First Nation To Ban \u2018Chick Shredding\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/germany-becomes-the-first-nation-to-ban-chick-shredding.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newly developed technology will determine the sex of each fertilized egg before the chick inside develops \u2013 enabling the removal of all male-identified eggs from the hatchery. This will eliminate the industry\u2019s need to heartlessly grind male chicks once hatched.<\/p>\n<p><i>Did you know?<\/i> Every year, millions of tiny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/activist-charged-with-criminal-mischief-for-giving-water-to-thirsty-animals\/\">male chicks<\/a> are <b>ground up alive or suffocated<\/b> because they don\u2019t lay eggs. The little guys aren\u2019t considered \u2018commercially viable\u2019 to even be raised for meat and, therefore, are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/animal-rights-activists-steal-homeless-mans-dog-leaving-him-in-tears\/\">brutally killed<\/a> shortly after hatching.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an unfortunate side effect of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/chickens-are-really-smart-and-feel-emotions-just-like-us\/\">commercial egg industry<\/a> which few producers are open to talking about. One can understand why, as <b>half of all chicks born into the egg industry are male \u2013 <\/b>creating an enormous ethical issue.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthy-holistic-living.com\/germany-becomes-the-first-nation-to-ban-chick-shredding.html?t=MAM\">http:\/\/www.healthy-holistic-living.com\/germany-becomes-the-f...html?t=MAM<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly developed technology will determine the sex of each fertilized egg before the chick inside develops \u2013 enabling the removal of all male-identified eggs from the hatchery. This will eliminate the industry\u2019s need to heartlessly grind male chicks once hatched. Did you know? Every year, millions of tiny male chicks are ground up alive or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48605,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096\/revisions\/48605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}