Assertion: hen's chick | /r/HasProperty | killed after birth
Facets:
value: by being ground up alive
type: MANNER
value: in free-range egg production
type: OTHER
value: in battery cage
type: LOCATION
value: during the process
type: TEMPORAL
value: immediately
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Male chicks are killed immediately after birth because they can’t lay eggs.
text: In battery cage and free-range egg production, unwanted male chicks are killed at birth during the process of securing a further generation of egg-laying hens.
text: At the hatcheries that supply female chicks to factory egg farms, small farms, and backyard egg hen enthusiasts, male chicks are sorted and killed shortly after birth by being ground up alive in giant macerators, gassed, or left to suffocate in garbage bags and dumpsters.