Israeli scientists have created egg-laying hens that only produce females, a breakthrough that could help end the annual culling of around seven billion male chicks globally. The chicks, born from egg-laying, are destroyed en masse by suffocation or crushing because they are not suitable for meat production and do not lay eggs. Animal rights activists have denounced the practice as barbaric, and it has been banned in several European states.
Biotechnology firm Poultry by Huminn develop new method preventing male chicken embryos from developing, potentially ending culling of 7 billion male chicks each year by poultry industry