Who can resist the lure of watching adorable chicks peeping all the way to the chick grinder? Not me. And now, having seen the illicit video, I can with certainty report that God is dead and humanity is a cancer.

This footage, shot with a hidden camera at Hy-Line Hatchery, shows male chicks systematically culled and ground up alive, due to their inability to produce eggs. If seeing the merciless machinery shown here doesn’t turn your stomach, a brief interview with one of the food processors will. The assembly-line worker casually talks about maimed chicks-the ones who slip through the cracks-as if they were sparkplugs or staplers… and, in a way, I suppose, they are.

Still, there’s gotta be a better way than veganism.

Undercover Investigation at Hy-Line Hatchery [Mercy for Animals via Alternet]

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