Every year the U.S. egg industry kills about 350 million male chicks because, while the fuzzy little animals are incredibly cute, they will never lay eggs, so have little monetary value.

The system began operating this month in Iowa at the nation's largest chick hatchery, which handles about ... Americans who are careful to buy cage free or free range eggs typically aren't aware ...

Free range, cage free, pasture raised. These are all descriptors we find on our egg cartons purportedly used to describe the living conditions of the chickens who laid them. But what do they ...

That longtime practice is changing, thanks to new technology that enables hatcheries ... buy cage free or free range eggs typically aren't aware that hundreds of millions of male chicks are ...

Newly hatched chicks are seen after being sorted in a machine that provides a new technique to enable hatcheries to peek ... who are careful to buy cage free or free range eggs typically aren ...