Good news! All lives matter! Vegetarians and carnivores may rejoice together! Triumphs of human ingenuity!
Even better would be tasty, better and resource efficient meat substitutes!
"Today, there are around eight billion hens in the world, laying more than 1.6 trillion eggs in 2022.
And for farmers whose businesses depend on these egg layers, the inevitable male chicks that are hatched – roughly seven billion every year – do not have a fiscal benefit and are killed immediately.
Israeli startup Huminn Poultry has developed a gene that stops embryos from developing into male baby chicks when the eggs are exposed to a simple blue LED light.
The gene was introduced to a group of chickens that the company dubbed the “Golda line.” Their eggs, which also include the gene, are incubated under a regular blue LED light for 21 days until they hatch.
By day three of the 21-day development, however, when the embryos inside the eggs begin to determine their sex – and while they are still just bundles of cells – the light triggers the gene to stop all further development of eggs containing male embryos. ..."
To stop the killing of male chicks To stop the slaughter of male chicks, #Israel invented #Golda, a #hen that only lays female #eggs!
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