Huge potential for technology that classifies eggs as infertile, male, and female

An end is in sight for the unethical, unsustainable, and very expensive nasty secret of the poultry industry — the annual kill of an estimated seven billion one-day-old layer chicks, because they are male and can’t lay eggs.

Huge potential for technology that classifies eggs as infertile, male, and female

An end is in sight for the unethical, unsustainable, and very expensive nasty secret of the poultry industry — the annual kill of an estimated seven billion one-day-old layer chicks, because they are male and can’t lay eggs.

Orbem, a company headquartered in Munich, Germany, has developed patented artificial intelligence-powered imaging technology which classifies eggs as infertile, male, and female.

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