Re:Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as g...
by fakedang on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:17PM
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Or you could raise them to adulthood and consume them for meat. Once a cow or hen passes the age for producing milk or eggs, they are often sacrificed.
The issue is that mass manufacture of meat has led to many bulls being killed at birth, because it's resource inefficient to raise them to adulthood. That's where we went wrong.
The same issues arise in chicken farming, where it's impossible to have eggs or dairy without death.
I saw some image of genetically modified eggs where they supposedly were able to control the sex of the chickens pre-birth, but in general, you need to kill about half of the animals born.