{"id":20965,"date":"2018-12-24T09:55:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T22:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20965"},"modified":"2018-12-24T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T22:55:19","slug":"worlds-first-no-kill-eggs-go-on-sale-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20965","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Egg_Gender_Testing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Egg_Gender_Testing.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Egg_Gender_Testing-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An estimated 4-6 billion male chicks are slaughtered globally every year because they serve no economic purpose. Some are suffocated, others are fed alive into grinding or shredding machines to be processed into reptile food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The culling is a messy solution to a thorny problem of modern poultry farming. Humans have bred chickens for one of two purposes: to produce eggs, or meat. Yet half of all the animals bred for this purpose are considered useless. Male chicks lay no eggs and don\u2019t grow fast enough to justify the cost of feeding them up for meat. So, they are simply destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world\u2019s first ever no-kill eggs are now on sale in Berlin after German scientists found an easy way to determine a chick\u2019s gender before it hatches, in a breakthrough that could put an end to the annual live shredding of billions of male chicks worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/climate-ecology\/world-s-first-no-kill-eggs-go-on-sale-in-berlin\/\">https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/climate-ecology\/world-s-first-no-kill-eggs-go-on-sale-in-berlin\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 4-6 billion male chicks are slaughtered globally every year because they serve no economic purpose. Some are suffocated, others are fed alive into grinding or shredding machines to be processed into reptile food. The culling is a messy solution to a thorny problem of modern poultry farming. Humans have bred chickens for one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World&#8217;s first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20967,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20965\/revisions\/20967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}