
(FILES) This file photo taken on April 14, 2016 shows a journalist holding a chick a lab at the Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine of the Dresden Institute of Technology (TU Dresden) as part of a project to determin spectroscopically the sex of chicks in ovo before they hatch at their lab in Dresden. The Higher Administrative Court in Muenster decided on May 20, 2016 that the controversial killing of millions of male chicks from laying hen breeds does not violate the animal protection law. / AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALLJOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images


