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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? Egg production, including on free-range farms, entails the mass killing of newborn male chicks, a point made in Nicholas D. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., Kristof’s column.