A system that determines the sex of chicks before they hatch eliminates the need to destroy young males. By Cara Buckley The egg industry hides a dark secret. Every year in the United States, more ...

United Egg Producers (UEP), an industry group representing the interests of egg farmers throughout the United States, says it will seek to eliminate the culling of male chicks. Because male chicks ...

Egg producers have agreed to look for alternatives to the practice of grinding to death male chicks shortly after they are born, in what has become a widespread practice for the industry that sees the ...