Millions of male chicks being killed

Hyderabad, February 22: In these days, Humans are becoming like cruel psychos and doesn t show any love to nature and small pets and animals.The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) investigation report, based on a video footage of cruelty to chicks in poultry farms, has thrown open a number of unethical practices followed in the poultry farms.People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India on Tuesday accused several hatcheries and farms in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana of adopting cruel methods to kill just born male chicks in their thousands every day.PETA representatives showed reporters videos of such chicks being killed.They are burnt alive, drowned in bins full of water and crushed in large grinders while still alive. Male chicks are considered useless to the egg industry and are hence discarded, they said.The investigation revealed that millions of male chicks which are considered as useless to the industry are burned, crushed, thrown into rubbish bins or even fed when alive by the top players of the egg industry.Secondly, while determining the sex, workers handle the chicks roughly and in a gruesome act. Workers cut off large portion of female beaks with a searing hot blade.PETA demands that the prevalent methods be replaced by new ovo sexing technology, where the chick s gender is determined before they hatch which potentially prevents large scale deaths of male chicks.