Common Industry Practice: Baby Chicks ground up alive

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If you buy value-priced supermarket eggs in most of the United States,you probably buy eggs that come from "egg factories"in which male chicks, that cannot lay eggs and are too expensive to pass along the market chain, are simply disposed of, alive. National media have published/broadcast this,(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/01/chicks-being-ground-up-al_n_273652.html )although I discovered this horrific story while reading a small newspaper in Wyoming on vacation.The paper covered this story simultaneously with reports about lifting the ban on wolf hunting in Idaho and Montana.

If you buy value-priced supermarket eggs in most of the United States,you probably buy eggs that come from "egg factories"in which male chicks, that cannot lay eggs and are too expensive to pass along the market chain, are simply disposed of, alive. National media have published/broadcast this,(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/01/chicks-being-ground-up-al_n_273652.html )although I discovered this horrific story while reading a small newspaper in Wyoming on vacation.The paper covered this story simultaneously with reports about lifting the ban on wolf hunting in Idaho and Montana.

My letters now carry a sticker alerting recipients of this fact. In some states, guerrilla activists reportedly have placed home-made stickers in egg cartons for purchasers to discover. I haven't been able to fact-check this, so it may be an urban myth.