# @robbie_lockie on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVYFFGTDHzg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61677103-robbie-lockie-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-03-02T09:00:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Robbie Lockie | Creative Technologist (@robbie_lockie) — https://gondola.cc/robbie_lockie

## Caption

☠️ TERRIBLE TOOLS - Part 2: The Hot Blade. 🐣🐤🐥

Imagine having half your mouth sliced off with a red-hot blade. 

No anesthetic. 

No pain relief. 

Now imagine you're a day-old chick.

This is beak trimming, or debeaking. 

A heated blade or infrared beam is used to remove up to half of a chick's beak. Beaks are full of nerve endings. 

The pain is both immediate and chronic.

The industry does this because overcrowded, stressed birds peck each other to death.

Instead of fixing the conditions, they mutilate the animals.

Several European countries have banned this.

The US has not

Swipe to the end if this doesn't sit right with you.

Sources: USDA ARS, AWI, MSPCA, Compassion in World Farming

#TerribleTools #Debeaking #BeakTrimming #ChickenFarming #chicken

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chickenfarming, chicken, terribletools, debeaking, beaktrimming

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