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The eggs are like every other egg. What seems to change is the process to procure the animals that will lay those eggs.

Instead of killing the male chickens as they hatch, you destroy the eggs halfway through the incubation period.

The article states that 4 to 6 billion male chicks are killed a year.

When looking to raise hens to lay eggs.

This company has developed a system for identifying the sex of a chicken whilst it is an egg.

So that they don't need to hatch it to determine if it's a male chicken and then kill it.

But you need to raise hens to get eggs. And if it turns out a rooster, you kill it instantly. This method avoids hatching the roosters.

It has often surprised me how many people don't understand this part of the egg industry.

I eat eggs, so I'm definitely not making any moral judgements, but the process is brutal. I would definitely buy no-kill eggs when they come to the UK.

You can make moral judgements if you acknowledge that you violate your own morality rather than having illusions otherwise. It just shows how powerful are cultural momentum and habit and the path of least resistance.

Go read the article.

But which came first, the chicken or the unfertilized egg?