Lewis Bollard

One example would be Innovo sexing as a new technology that can get rid of the need to kill male chicks in the egg industry.

The unwanted chicks are killed at birth.

And Inovo Sexing has already spared about 200 million chicks from that fate.

So there are these giant drivers, and the good news is we're just getting started with them.

There is the potential, I think, to help tens of billions of animals through these drivers.

Sure.

Yes.

I mean, the historical basis is

is a story of technology doing harm, which was we initially, the egg industry and the meat chicken industry separated because they realized they could grow meat chickens to be optimized for weight gain and laying hens to be optimized for laying eggs.

That meant that the laying egg industry had no need of the male chicks because they couldn't lay eggs and they couldn't grow fast enough to be meat chickens.

And so what they decided was to just kill them on the day they were born.

And so the standard practice, and this is about 8 billion chicks globally every year, are just thrown in a giant meat grinder or suffocated in bags the day they're born.

Crazy.

This new technology is basically the application of existing technologies to scan the eggs in advance and work out whether they're going to be male or female.

And then you can just get rid of the male eggs very early in the incubation phase.

And this technology went from 10 years ago just being a vague idea to today, it's already a third of the European egg industry.

It just got introduced to the United States.

We've got the first eggs coming out in the United States now.

So this is a technology that is growing rapidly, and I'm really optimistic can ultimately end this problem globally.

I think it was both.