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Radlo Foods Pledging Conversion to Cage-Free Eggs

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Sometime soon, David Radlo of Radlo Foods says his sign in front of the former DeCoster Egg Farm will be coming down and all his business at the massive egg operation in Turner will come to an end. Instead, Eggland's Best says it will get classic brown eggs from other locations. Here's a link to the investigative video.

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Baby Chicks Ground Up

Critter News

Thanks to Mercy for Animals for their undercover work exposing this egg industry practice. Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm. This is the second time this year that I've heard of this group capturing headlines. I'd never heard of them before.

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

10,000 Birds

They emerged from their bloody rampage leaving fifteen adults dead, and fifteen destroyed nests with either smashed or missing eggs. He didn’t maim or touch the animals, period,” said his lawyer, Myles Breiner, during his not guilty plea. Between the adults and their eggs, the three of them killed 32 live albatrosses.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Herzog states, “The awkward fact is that most wanton animal cruelty is not perpetrated by inherently bad kids but by normal children who will eventually grow up to be good citizens” (34). . The answer, throughout the entire 300 pages, essentially is: Because they do. People believe one thing and do another. All day long.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. This modest proposal would bring a smidgen of comfort to millions of hens used for egg production. To the Editor: Re “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

Critter News

Americans systematically exploit and kill animals - sometimes for scientific progress; sometimes for leather jackets, ham sandwiches, or horse-racing. So why is one type of animal cruelty (dogfighting) more reprehensible than another (lobster-boiling)? Many (though not all) animal lovers kind of suck too, including myself.