{"id":72999,"date":"2026-10-31T23:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=72999"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:22:42","slug":"male-chick-culling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/10\/male-chick-culling\/","title":{"rendered":"Male chick culling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every single year<br \/>\nIn every part of the U.K.<br \/>\n40 million male chicks<br \/>\nAre murdered such dismay<br \/>\nTheir first gasp of oxygen<br \/>\nSees the egg industry<br \/>\nTurning their bodies into soup<br \/>\nThat\u2019s the industry<br \/>\nIt\u2019s known as male chick culling<br \/>\nA sanitised affair<br \/>\nEvery chirping youngster<br \/>\nNo time for a prayer<br \/>\n\ud83d\udc24\ud83d\udc23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every single year In every part of the U.K. 40 million male chicks Are murdered such dismay Their first gasp of oxygen Sees the egg industry Turning their bodies into soup That\u2019s the industry It\u2019s known as male chick culling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/10\/male-chick-culling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,492,120,311,569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-a-not-my-king-story","category-chickens","category-child-exploitation","category-eggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73000,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72999\/revisions\/73000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}