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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
[1/5] A man handles an ear of wheat in a greenhouse at the Israel Plant Gene Bank at the Volcani Institute in Rishon LeZion, Israel November 3, 2022. REUTERS/Amir CohenRishon Lezion, Israel, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Could the key to securing the world's food supply for the future be hidden in the DNA of crops from the distant past? Tens of thousands of types of seeds are stored in the gene bank. "This is where agriculture started about 10,000 years ago," said Einav Mayzlish-Gati, director of the gene bank. For daily comprehensive coverage on COP27 and climate change in your inbox, sign up for the Reuters Sustainable Switch newsletter here.
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