[SmellyGeekBoy]

> what to do with male chicks - throw them alive in a grinder or suffocate them?

Let them grow to adulthood and then eat them?

[ovi256]

Like most adult male animals, they taste terrible and stringy. Even pre-industrial societies didn't bother rearing male animals for meat.

[code_duck]

I’m sure they could deal with it in a better way than they do, ethically - but they’re operating under the restraints of capitalism, which says compassion is too costly.