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Radlo Foods Pledging Conversion to Cage-Free Eggs

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Good news following an investigation of farm animal abuses by Mercy for Animals. Tags: battery hens animal cruelty eggs undercover investigation farm animal welfare. Here's a link to the investigative video. Be warned, it's hard to watch.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

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If you are a non-meat-eating, non-leather-wearing, non-shampoo-using, animal-rights activist for PETA, then it is not hypocritical to judge Vick for animal abuse. Many (though not all) animal lovers kind of suck too, including myself. And let's give slaps on the wrist to animal abusers.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

12): While this is a step in the right direction toward reducing the animal abuse inherent in all factory farming (from the chicken’s point of view), it’s still a long way from what nature intended. Though chickens can live for 5 to 11 years, after two years, they are hauled away to slaughter just like battery-caged hens.