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Critter News
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
I am a firm supporter of reforming factory egg farming. I believe that chickens should have room to stretch and walk around. And I'm willing to pay for more expensive eggs if it allows for that. Organic eggs are more expensive than the standard egg carton. Not everyone has that luxury.
Critter News
JULY 8, 2011
Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.
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Critter News
JUNE 28, 2009
More is at stake than just the comfort of chickens, though the well-being of 284 million U.S. Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems. The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 In South Carolina egg sales tally about $90 million annually.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 6, 2014
Chickens deserve to live humanely. People seem to lose sight of the fact that these are sentient animals, not food machines! BRUCE FRIEDRICH Senior Policy Director Farm Sanctuary Washington, March 4, 2014 To the Editor: The humane laws for hens in California that provide them more space in which to live should be countrywide.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Surprising to me at least. The editorial advocates a national standard that establishes humane standards in all parts of the country.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 28, 2010
If we judge this moral elite by its adherence to something like the Golden Rule of the New Testament, there is not all that much room for its improvement, except, as I suggested earlier, for the extension of our moral sympathies to nonhuman animals. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens. I am myself not so heroic.
Critter News
JUNE 10, 2011
Others have suggested that the amount of money allocated would only be enough to assist half the Spanish egg industry to convert. But some industry experts doubt Spain, a nation which has an unemployment rate above 20% and a stagnant economy, can afford to pay out €300m to farmers.
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