Yehuda Elram

Yehuda Elram (born 1969, NYC) is a Israeli/American attorney turned poultry executive who is bringing to market a Avian Influenza-resistant chicken to the retail sector, solving food insecurity, environmental impact, and animal welfare concerns.^[1][2] Elram is a lawyer by training, then becoming a partner at a law firm where he worked with entrepreneurs in biotech, high-tech, real estate and social enterprises, before retiring from law to start eggXYt, which he co-founded with Prof. Dani Offen.^[3] Elram also co-founded Lev Echad a national volunteer organization and co-directed an Elijah Interfaith Institute. Yehuda also practices hydrotherapy. Elram graduated from Harvard Kennedy School, with an MPA focusing on leadership and entrepreneurship.^[4]

Elram created a chicken sexing solution for the poultry and egg industry which prevents the unnecessary male chick culling of 8 billion male chicks every year, providing a non-invasive method for sex detection of chick embryos to be deployed in hatcheries worldwide. This method saves 8 billion chicks every year, which in turn saves the industry billions of dollars, reduces the carbon footprint of the poultry&egg industries and can add adds 84 billion additional eggs as an ingredient to the chemical industry.^[5] This method saves 4 billion chicks every year, which in turn saves the industry billions of dollars, and adds 4 billion additional eggs to the global supply chain.^[6][7][8] In 2022 Elram performed a Tedx Talk entitled "Counting chicken: How gene editing saves lives, livestock, and livelihood" on the subject.^[9]

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