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The little victims of your morning fry up, millions of baby chicks are minced alive or gassed every year just because they are the wrong sex to lay eggs The little victims of your morning fry up, millions of baby chicks are minced alive or gassed every year just because they are the wrong sex to lay eggs

Viva! exposes cracks in the egg industry

Our undercover investigators have been inside two of Britain's biggest chick hatcheries.

40 million chicks killed every year in Britain

British hatchery

Males are destined for a grusome death at just a day old.

Organic, free-range and factory farms ALL get their chicks from the same hatcheries, just like the one above.

The Happy Egg Company

This photo was taken by us at the Happy Egg Company. Do these 'free range' hens look 'Happy' to you?

We discovered that up to 40 million male chicks are killed every year at just a day or two old. The industry has no use for them because they don't lay eggs and are too 'skinny' for meat.

Free-range, Organic and intensive

Intensive, organic or free range, it is all the same. This never-ending slaughter continues simply because people eat eggs.

Female chick mutilation

Life isn't much better for their baby sisters - routine mutilation in which most have the tips of their beaks painfully sliced off. It's done to stop them from damaging each other in the overcrowded hell that awaits them. It doesn't work as feather pecking and cannibalism are commonplace.

Life is short and most are killed at 72 weeks - a fraction of their natural lifespan. All because they start to lay fewer eggs.

Battery cages

Around 50 per cent of hens in Britain are still caged. But battery cages are to be replaced - yes you've guessed it - by another, different cage. Supposedly 'enriched'. Not by much from what we saw!

Most free range is now so intensive that it's just another type of factory farming - gigantic sheds where many hens never even go outside! How do we know? Because we've filmed it.

Act now

This industry is cracked beyond repair. Don't buy eggs.

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£  

 > British hatchery
 > The Happy Egg Company
 > Enriched cages

 > Egg fact sheet
 > Go Vegan pack
 > Campaign materials

 > Sponge cake
 > Pancakes
 > Chocolate cake

Up to 40 million male chicks are killed every year at just a day of two old (more then 1 per second).


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