To the Museum of Science and Industry,

Your disregard for the lives of innocent animals must end immediately. Nearly 8000 baby chicks are born for and die for your hatchery annually. They are born to be ogled at by museum visitors. Their bodies are commodified for your profit. Once these chicks hatch and grow a week old, you kill them, for no valid reason. Your exhibit unnecessarily takes the lives of animals. 

It is cruel and unacceptable to keep the newly hatched chicks in glass enclosures, where visitors are free to poke and prod on the windows, disturbing the chicks. These animals emerge from their shells into a harsh metal environment with no comfort of a mother, left to stumble around alone in their unwelcoming prison.

Your hatchery exhibit has no real educational value. It exists purely because visitors enjoy seeing cute baby animals. There are other ways to demonstrate or model life cycles without killing chicks weekly. It is unclear what actual value the hatchery adds to your Genetics exhibit. 

Efforts by the museum to preserve rare species of chickens are understandable, but this cannot be used as an excuse to send thousands of normal chicks to their deaths each year.

Please recognize the cruelty behind your exhibit and close the chick hatchery at once.