REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File PhotoREHOVOT, Israel, July 17 - Every year, egg farmers kill 7 billion day-old male chicks because they cannot grow up to lay eggs and are the wrong breed for meat.
A laboratory in Israel has a solution: what if the male eggs don't hatch?
Day-old male chicks are normally "either macerated or suffocated or electrified.
In some countries they do not even bother to cull their males properly,” explained Cinnamon, principal investigator at Israel’s Volcani Institute, which works to attain food security and food safety.
The unhatched male eggs can be used for other purposes such as animal feed.
Persons:
Amir Cohen, Yuval Cinnamon’s, ”, Cinnamon, Wainberg, Hannah Confino, Ari Rabinovitch
Organizations:
Volcani Institute, REUTERS, Volcani, Huminn, Thomson
Locations:
Rehovot, Israel