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Egg sexing prevents billions of deaths - Innovate Animal Ag
Season 1
Episode 37
Published 1 year, 8 months ago
Description
Innovate Animal Ag are a think tank promoting the use of technology to improve standards for animals used in agriculture. They are at the forefront of In OVO sexing technology currently used in 20% of egg hatcheries in the EU and soon to be introduced to the USA. Without such technology as many as 7 billion male chicks are killed pointlessly each year. Future of Foods speaks to director Casey Downey on the many and varied ways of telling whether an egg is a male or a female.