Every year, six billion newborn chicks are killed at egg-laying facilities around the world. Usually, they’re either gassed or shredded to death en masse. These aren’t accidental killings, but rather, ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades, chick culling, the routine killing of newly hatched male chicks because they cannot lay eggs and are not considered profitable by the egg ...

Kipster, which claims to be “the first carbon-neutral” egg hatchery in the world, will also be the first to sell eggs in the U.S. using a new kind of technology, one that aims to improve animal ...

WILTON — It’s a cruel statistic. Each year, U.S. companies will cull about 350 million male chicks shortly after they hatch, needing only the females to lay the nation’s 94 billion table eggs. The ...