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Re:Tech aims to block hatching of billions of male chicks fa... by RGamma on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:42PM (#33975446)
Also, since just this year it's forbidden in Germany (https://www.bgbl.de/xaver/bgbl/start.xav?startbk=Bundesanzei...)

And apparently in the EU the chicks have to be anesthesized before being sent to the grinder.

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Re:Tech aims to block hatching of billions of male chicks fa... by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @08:01PM (#33978620)
> And apparently in the EU the chicks have to be anesthesized before being sent to the grinder.

Do you know how that is done? The chicks are used as a source of protein, so I'm curious as to how they are anesthetized without making the result feed unusable.

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Re:Tech aims to block hatching of billions of male chicks fa... by RGamma on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:05AM (#33982412)
Couldn't find the methods used in practice. But presumably it's electrocution or CO/CO2 poisoning (see the allowed methods in https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...) or I might have been wrong and shreddering may indeed be used on its own, but can't be bothered to research further.
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