{"id":290601,"date":"2023-05-06T11:16:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=290601"},"modified":"2023-05-06T00:11:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T05:11:47","slug":"pro-abortion-vox-chicken-embryos-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-vox-chicken-embryos-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion Vox concerned chicken embryos may feel pain during abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Though abortion advocates often deny the value, rights, and humanity of preborn human beings, it appears there are some<\/em> embryos for which they do feel concern: chicken embryos.<\/p>\n

Vox published an article<\/a>\u00a0last week about the problem of male chicks in the egg business. As Vox reported, “While the female chicks go on to lay the more than\u00a01.2 trillion eggs<\/a>\u00a0humans consume annually,\u00a06.5 billion<\/a>\u00a0male chicks each year are hatched, only to be quickly snuffed out. That\u2019s because they don\u2019t lay eggs, so they\u2019re of no use to the egg industry, and because they don\u2019t grow as big and fast as other chicken breeds, they\u2019re of no use to the chicken meat industry.”<\/p>\n

Companies kill the male chicks right after birth by tossing them into a grinder, and this fact disturbed enough people that some European nations began to ban the practice \u2014 which is understandable. As a result, companies have begun using technology to determine what the sex of a chick is while still in the egg<\/em>. If the chick is found to be a male, the egg is destroyed.<\/p>\n

But the pre-hatched chicks could begin to feel pain a third of the way through their incubation period (by the end of their “first trimester,” so to speak). Vox pointed out:<\/p>\n

Scientists believe that chick embryos could potentially feel pain as early as day seven of their 21-day incubation period. That means that even with the most advanced in-ovo sexing, male chick embryos could still be experiencing suffering.<\/em><\/p>\n

A new preprint study, funded by the German government and conducted by researchers at the Technical University of Munich, provides some evidence that chicken embryos may not be capable of feeling pain until much later in the incubation period, after day 12.<\/em><\/p>\n

Researchers applied potentially painful stimuli like heat and electricity to chicken embryos from day 7 to day 19 of their 21-day incubation, measuring their heart rate, blood pressure, brain activity, and movement, all in an effort to uncover whether the stimuli translated to experienced pain. Brain activity only began on day 13, movement from beak stimulation increased significantly on day 15, blood pressure increased significantly on day 16, heart rate jumped on day 17, and body movement increased significantly on day 18.<\/em><\/p>\n

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So brave and unexpected of pro-choice @voxdotcom<\/a> to devote serious consideration to young embryos possibly feeling pain in —<\/p>\n

Oh, my bad. These are CHICKEN abortions. Human embryos can continue to pound sand.https:\/\/t.co\/znVKQube2v<\/a><\/p>\n

— Secular Pro-Life (@secularprolife) May 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n