Since it is only the female chick which will grow up to become the egg-laying profit-making machine for battery farmers, the male chicks are unwanted - so what is their fate?

A report in Animals International (11/6/82) that:

"at worst they are placed in plastic bags and thrown out with other waste on garbage dumps to die of suffocation if they are not previously crushed in the bag by bulldozers... they can also be passed through a grinder or crusher".

What is their fate in NZ?

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Weightwatchers USA have contributed $10,000 to experiments on monkeys.

"The Influences of Ovarian Hormones and the Menstrual Cycle on Caloric Intake, Taste Preferences and Body Weight in Rhesus Monkeys"

Richard Adams (author Watership Down and Plague Dogs) resigned (November 1982) as President RSPCA London... he claims RSPCA practises Institutional Lethargy... is now Patron of Animal Aid.