and why did they have all the time? i should just search madame trace amount for the . for 2 years, many a cartons in germany have been marked with labels that say, no mail checks, colt sounds good, right? before mail checks would be shredded since they serve no purpose in egg production . so called brother roosters of commercially bread hens cancel a ex there meet isn't popular with consumers either time. no one wants the rooster on 5. he said with this read line, i'm just not possible to raise the brother cock, essentially, but they still, germany's former agriculture minister and really looking at legally band a chick calling village bytes and 50 globally were the 1st to legally in this

practice that from science unacceptable. to kill animals immediately after hatching . so just because they are of a certain 6, this is a milestone for animal welfare. that's because that that law was just made for the media. on millions of male checks are still being hatched in germany. the law injures animal rights activists. god, it's basically, really a hellish solution would need anyone buying these things should really think twice before falling for this p r trek line funding. that's supposed to what's happened to the millions of male checks, born in germany since the law took effect in 2022. and this is our search for them takes us from germany to poland. to gone to is phonetics that i'm, i'm alexis, i'm from, i'm following the mail chicks right. my numbers, my name's fit into the bins. i'm doing the background research. is this law about

it's true for animal welfare, or is it just making things worse? the germans loved their eggs, eating around $230.00 per person every year. that's around 20000000000 eggs annually . these eggs come from a chicken breed use especially for mass production. now, egg cartons that promise, no chip calling with brother, rooster rearing, suggest that these chickens are living a good life. our research begins where commercially bread chickens are born in a hatchery. i'm on my way to the village of sending in the german state of north ryan was fairly a bore cod bring shorter runs this hattrick. he and his colleague cloudy, are connected. show me around. the main business here is incubating and rearing

laying hands. these incubators can hold more than 300000 x. of course, it's not just tens that have here. um, a file from experience there, 50 percent female, 50 percent, male. sticking name on them, there are other ones which don't hatch either because the eggs unfertilized or they just don't make it into the shop. before the law came into effect, mail checks would be enough to ties and killed after hatching. and now they're allowed to live. but how trees and still only profit from their hands. bombs the wires, the roosters profitable for you. i'm not going so basically there are new buyers for these brother roosters lines. there's relatively little meat on the t v and he's a flash on that. that's exactly our biological di. lemme you them on this and there are new customers. no one wants to buy these roosters and um after 40 days of fat

and and weighs about $2.00 to us. it takes brewster's more than $150.00 days to reach anywhere close to that weight. meanwhile, in the hatchery, i'm finding out how soon chick life begins in the neck. that's even more money now, and then you'll see a heart be taking the off from. but from these new pathways, you can tell the bodies line below and the air sacks up here, i see the plaza. you can see all the movements. oh yes, literally. there's life in here. yes indeed. and then 2 years ago, if this egg contained a meal check, he would have been killed at birth. the practice of calling meal checks had long been condemned by animal rights activists. in 2013, they denounced, bring schultz as hatchery to make an example of the whole industry. in 2016 the company was indicted, but the case was dismissed because check calling pleasant, expressly forbidden, under german law. however,

the court clearly stated that law makers could make calling chicks a punishable offense. and in 2022 they did. wonderful. it's a milestone for animal welfare. now, german farmers have the following options. option one raised the brother, roosters and sell their meat. auction to use breeds of chickens back in late eggs and produces better meat. option 3 sort out meal checks by the 13th day. thank you . patients before they hatch, the draft law was introduced in the late summer of 2020, and took effect at the start of 2022. not all hatcheries need the transition in time. in north members on the bottom, the in north ryan with cecilia, we were one of 13 hatcheries, isn't working on so slow today. there's just 2 of us, the slides, while i'm very many white for me, there were $25.00 at one point from that there was only 5 of us and each and we're not very happy. how often is to florida? that low was just made for the media. uh no for the median. got knocked on. the

critics were pacified at 1st. when animal rights activist took legal action against bring show this country, it pushed the government to act. but at great cost, i'm gonna come to that it was a lose lose situation because there was nothing to be one or the ethical side can try empathy to working solution lose on and a half a tree like this meal checks hatch one after the other. but where are they supposed to go? now? the 2nd one is kind of the kind of a charge from me, i'm on there in the hatching phase. now. what day are we on now? the 20th incubation day, the female checks are raised here to become laying hands or later so to other firms as young hands, the ones to become of this little guy. lucy, on the 1st thing, as long as it's there aren't many yet. then he will be back as needed and fastened

company. i must start the fattening and the slaughtering usually don't take place in germany, but rather in neighboring poland. the slightest bit flushed and wondering happens most exclusively in poland because it costs more to slaughter the birds in germany . and so they just can't compete kind of the largest left the volume. you know, we've heard that most of the male chicks go abroad to poland in particular off. so we're going to take a closer look and that's cool. we don't, that's not gonna go on. the law was created to improve animal welfare. but now these meal checks are being transported over great distances. i want to find out what happens to them after that. he retrieve it, do you have that enough in these work? hold bring sure to have hired to raise the mail checks wouldn't respond to us and gave no indication as to where they are reared. he pulled a hand of see where to other german hatcheries send their mail checks. i do some research writing associations in poultry farms,

yet no one will provide any concrete info. so i turned to animal rights activists early on, many suspected the anti chicks reading lot would only make matters worse. they shot videos showing how these roosters really live. to me this isn't the ethical rooster rearing those a cartons promise. since the law took effect the animal rights activists give me a list of farms which rear brother roosters. i for the list to alexa. i set off for poland to see for myself what the conditions are like for the roosters living there. journalist machine crescent, alaska has agreed to help me with my research here. he's been working on animal husbandry in poland for years and has uncovered some shocking cases. i run, you know,

various investigations on different subjects and this is the most difficult one, i guess in germany it was a big subject to save those metrics. but then in poland there is the information that he's investigated. businesses all over poland on our behalf. i told the number of countries producers anymore, so they're putting tricky because the invitation and i asked the question and then the guy said, i don't know, i ask another question and he just disconnected in half of my sentence, which is quite like strange. why is there so little info about what's happening to the brother roosters? if it's all legal, what are these companies got to hide? come to the over 17000000 mail checks have been brought here to poland. but here, no one seems to know what's happened to them as it does, and apparently they vanished without a trace. but that can be,

so we're going to search for them. let's see if we can find out more by going there are. so i'm, i'm trying to perform like tomatoes come we had for places on the list given to us by animal rights activists. our 1st destination is just south of rolls off. a slaughter house for boiling, foul is said to be located here. and we want to have a look around the brother, roosters are much too small to be slaughtered and conventional advert twice, but slaughterhouses for boiling file are designed to handle smaller birds. so there's a good chance the german roosters are being slaughtered here. we ask around, but no one's willing to speak with us. the director has no interest in this kind of interview. he doesn't want to speak to you. so we can talk with anyone know but we keep going to make our way to a large farm which appears to have a lot of hoops.

yeah, very hello . is there someone we can speak to to go around with the other side of the building? oh, thank you that we finally got to lead in 2 days time. 20000 to mail checks are scheduled to arrive from germany. the owner is even willing to let us film inside, provided we don't show his face. at 1st, most animal rights activists were happy that chick calling was banned in germany. now they're just shaking their heads. 3 petition meeting from animal rights organization, local tissue heavily criticized as how the law has been implemented. that they had some had told me to anyone who holds an egg garden like this in their hands. things we can take, i'm doing something good and at least these animals can live

a decent life. it needs to know that these birds will wind up in a factory file and die in poland or another foreign country as well. so any one buying these ag should really think twice before falling for this cheap brother, rooster p r. dragging to optic. you don't mind fight english. the image. she thinks it was wrong, that male chicks used to be killed just after they hatched. but a law that forbids their slaughter while condemning them to afford living conditions isn't much of an improvement. these exhibiting in these animals barely turn a profit, so they stop halls full of them to get something out of it in the end and of all the way the result is. all you do is bunyan by an infected open wounds on the feet and excruciating pain. and a tech click this map. so is the new law failure as it is because that's the thing the time of the law was. let's put a lid on the chicks reading problem pulliam optic. but even back then, i knew it wouldn't work. um, they weren't thinking about the animals that and in the end consumers in

a supermarket or left with a bunch of meaningless labels and an empty promises and keep them up and jumped in yet. so the law was supposed to do the exact opposite back in poland. this group is still empty. but 2 days from now, $28000.00 to mail checks from germany will be arriving. okay, lots of rules about how many checks will fit in here. if the guy to $30000.00 has told me this is sylvia, i find a free tube and that's where the chicks guy is picking up to like a broker, $5.00 of it. yes, i do. it all comes point. so your range of places all over the whole into how many chicks have you places and below? no, do you think i this 68000000 but the brother roosters won't stay here for long piece 3 or 400 times or 12 weeks. they go to the slaughterhouse where they

wind up and su 4 pads a boar, and they're explored and they would want exploit to it for to few many go to africa . ok, so we're now talking about the price as well. i don't know, that's a note to me. come to me one more time tonight. so i ask for kind of all places. i don't know, they won't say me. so in this group, the conditions look quite good right now. so we're a male chick winds up is largely a matter of luck since it took effect and the lobby protecting the wellbeing of all chicks and brother, roosters europe wide agriculture, including the poultry industry, receives about 50000000000 euros and ease subsidies every year. but the market for brother roosters is quite small in selling their meat because unprofitable, especially in germany, europe subsidy system have to knock on effect some other countries. like gonna,

let's take a closer look. i traveled to the city of commodity and gone to my 1st stop. the market. poetry is popular here, especially important chickens. that's because imported poultry meat brought to gonna is cheaper the oven. ready chickens sold by local farms, costs the equivalent of 4 years. important chicken costs half that much local farmers can compete on price. so most consumers buy the imported meat. i mainly eat imported chicken because the meat from local farms is too expensive. and imported chickens are very plump and have a lot of meat. that's good. the local chickens are much smaller in price here by prof, are important to me because it can feed the whole family. so i can see the movie for those and it will be time for the 5 hours by car from

kumasi lies the part of a problem. the canadian capital is the important needs. first point of arrival. many here are involved and it straight. hi, my name is let me look for more than a decade. philomena or 2 has been buying and selling imported poultry. it's stored here on this she receives $20.00 to $30.00 containers of imported chicken per month. and read us a check need confirm. this call from us paul land on brief time uh and touch key. other places in the supply chain often starts in europe too. okay. the sense of because i love, okay. all this me, it had its origins in germany and then went to poland and now has wound up here and

gone out of you won't find whole frozen birds in this cold for just chicken parts. philomena o 2 says imports have increased in recent years. from now to can business owners become the most efficient has become really more inventive. both prefer, like buying so we would buy more zoom for small one because all of one involving themselves in their business. the imported chicken makes a tough for local sellers to survive on the domestic market. christy, on a bow, a, feels the effects of this practice. she operates a chicken farm with her family. she says there was lots of activity here years ago . now only a few who are at for capacity. she takes me into one. yeah, is 1009 wile imported meat is under cutting her business. like me to me either like for me. and then i can,

at least it is money because of the price you see on the phone she sells her chickens for around 4 years, a piece that's almost twice as much as the poultry gone to imports from abroad. it's expensive just fat and animals. we can keep up with the price of important chicken means that the farms and gone are collapsing because of the chicken imports . we make almost no profit most. until a few years ago this firm employed many people. now there's not much work to be done. and over the years, she's had to lay off more and more workers and her last time were in here for a chicken and for 3 years, 3 years. it's not easy for christiane and gabriel and her family. of course we have is farming is how we are the money. so we're trying to keep our

phone line of collapsing and i as yeah there because if it doesn't survive, i don't have any other options. the me, a black at 1st glance, canadian consumers seem to benefit from the cheap imports, but they're presenting gunners, pull tree production from becoming self sufficient. plus it's not sustainable to ship me thousands of kilometers. to recap, german log band chip calling in 2022. now the labels on egg cartons lead consumers to believe that mail checks will lead good lives. one of the solutions proposed by the law involved raising and selling the birds. one of the few farms doing just that is in golf, in north ryan with failure. 6000 female checks and 1000 males are being delivered

to this organic farm. something just so after about 80 of them. yeah, good. they have to do yesterday. the hens were brown and the roosters are whitehall and see him. christmas will be handled and by these roosters are supposed to have a good life right from the start. the luxury looks like he's going his own way. who is who and where do you think you're going them and that's where i live. but experiencing this gives you respect for living creatures, and it doesn't make sense to say it's here now better kill it as easy sounds as i'm kinda safe after. but with this breed line, it's just not possible to raise the brother car extensively. what a 104 also see still he rears them well. ringback the so here we have our brother roosters, mom's time for her. they were put into a normal cube, a free ring coop on. and then 2 or 3 weeks ago they came over here at 5. i have one

here who wants to come on to him. the young gear, they can range freely. oh, there's feed and water and the cool thing about the outside there is no extra fee put up by raising the brother roosters. he's doing what the law makers intended, but that's not competitive in the long run. modern wishes consumer attitudes would change so that small firms like his didn't sell their eggs and chickens at a loss. ringback the politicians other suggestion is to pre dual purpose chickens. this type of chicken lays fewer ex what can also be used for me production. but that's not profitable for farmers like young bowden. so he's pleading for government subsidies. ready investments, what's your wish for the future? yeah, and assistance to get some support from the politicians. kick it off for me. i remember i said can be that we're leading the way and then the some point we're forced to throw in the towel english taking this. and it was the politicians idea. and so

they need to take responsibility for it and not leave us in the lurch. they started to us all the time to hear from the politicians, germany's ministry of food and agriculture is currently headed by chance of the mirror from the greens scheduling issues meant we couldn't speak with him in person . so we put our questions in writing. we ask, what do you think of the fact checks are being taken abroad, where they're fattened and slaughtered under awful conditions? does that comply with animal welfare? a ministry spokesman responded. the german government has no knowledge as to whether brother, roosters from german hatcheries are being raised, slaughtered and sold under questionable conditions abroad. he wouldn't be more specific than that. what does the ministry think about rooster meat being exported to africa? we didn't receive an answer. the agriculture ministry is allocating funds for dual

purpose chickens, and in over 6 thing, which can determine a chick fix before hatching. in although sexing makes it possible to stump the incubation of male chick embryos, so the brother roosters don't hatch at all. since hatcheries are increasingly dependent on in obo, sexing, it's expected that the number of brother roosters will continue to decline. that way. mal chicks are already sorted out as embryos. that's possible until the 13th day. thank you. patients can, could that be the solution? at the only university of applied sciences, they're trying to use in over sex. and even earlier researcher young's 1000 deal shows me a method they're working on the often bus via on his head. and we hope to develop a device which will enable us to cheaply identify the sex on the 3rd day of

incubation. how to pick 10 can then whether the sensation of pain really develops on the 7th or 13th day, isn't even up for discussion to discuss. you want states our examination method, let's the cold take place before that. and so animal suffering is reduced to a minimum increased medium yet this device collects gender specific data from the incubated ex hormones. proteins and other data get measured after making a small hole in the actual van that seems always made of flowing it to get to the membrane. me can, all right, because we expect to find far more hormones to measure in the membrane and then on the actual out of the ice. all afterwards, a laser beam of a specific wavelength will be shown into the hole that stimulates the molecules and the eggs out are shown membrane, causing them to admit a distinctive form of radiation which differs according to the embryos sex. a lindsey funds here, you can already see the measurements signals arriving, and the cow, the, and registered by the detector. incentive to unpack it counts the from to take the

off on them. then with the help of an algorithm, it determines whether the check is male or female. this method is only worth it for mess egg production in large companies. so the, the often to teach us when, naturally we hope that when it's fully developed in the industry will recognize that it no longer has to go to great lengths to get around to the german long of to torture. because it's giving the german government has allocated over $8000000.00 euro is to fund research of an over sex and methods. but this technology is still being developed the, all the alternatives to chicks reading are either not market ready or not economical. so it makes no difference if the a curtain says no mail checks cold. the only purpose that serves is to suit the

guilty consciences. because germany's anti check calling lot is well intentioned. the poorly executed the, the, the

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