[iandwk]

I watched the video about the chicks in the grinder. I can tell you one falsehood for sure. Male chicks have has much use as pullets in the broiler market. They also grow much faster than pullets, which makes them cheaper to grow for the integrator, less feed per pound of chicken. The main difference is in the tenderness of the meat. Pullets are desired for tenderness. Roosters usually go for further processing, such as lunch meats. You can believe this or not, but it is true.

I can say for sure that the statement is not true and is likely meant to be inflammatory. As to the grinding part, what I saw going into the grinders was mostly egg shells. If they are making a practice of letting chicks go through the grinder, they need to be fired and replaced, and probably were after this film came out. That's just lazy workers doing a poor job, but you get that a lot when all you pay is minimum wage.

As for the rough treatment the chicks get, it may look rough to those who have never seen it, but if they hurt the chicks, they become useless, so why would they damage all of them in that manner? If I had chicks arrive on my farm that had been mishandled, which did occasionally happen, I took a count of them and got reimbursed for them. It was not as often as one might think. I may have averaged 2-300 per year. Not too bad out of 1,000,000. When you complain about it, they make whatever correction is necessary to stop them from being hurt. Why wouldn't they? It costs them and the growers money to lose chicks due to carelessness. Think about it.