Truly horrifying: undercover footage shot in Hy-Line Hatchery in Iowa, “the world’s largest hatchery for egg-laying breed chicks.” Workers roughly separate male chicks from females. Males are unwanted by the poultry industry because they can’t lay eggs and they can’t grow fast enough to be sold for meat (as you probably know, poultry companies force chickens to grow unnaturally fast to maximize profit).

The male chicks continue riding on a conveyor belt and STRAIGHT INTO A MEAT GRINDER WHILE STILL ALIVE.

Adam Werbach, the author of Strategy for Sustainability, urges you to sign a petition urging McDonald’s, one of the nation’s largest chicken meat customers, to demand that the poultry industry adopt humane standards.

And I urge you to stop eating meat if you don’t know where it’s from. Period.

(Hat tip to @silbatron.)