Three-quarters of Brits want to switch to ‘cull-free’ eggs, new report finds

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The UK egg industry kills between 40 million and 45 million male chicks, which can’t be used for meat and can’t lay eggs, each year in a process called hatch and dispatch

More than three-quarters of Brits would choose to buy ‘cull-free’ eggs if they could, and would be willing to pay an extra 1p per egg to do so, a new poll has found.

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