Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

By removing eggs from their ingredient list, BOCA is withdrawing financial support for factory farms that use battery-cages. They are striking a blow against the cruel egg industry. Whether or not you choose to eat eggs, this is a major victory for animals.

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2009 Eggs Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Like crows and jays, they are social, vocal, intelligent, and omnivorous (including eating eggs and nestlings). Small, lanky, very social toucans with serrated beaks, these birds will eat anything they can catch. When aracaris go after young birds and other small animals, I can’t help but think of miniature velociraptors.

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Costa Rica Panama Eating Eggs South America 166

Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

Is what he did consciously to his pitbulls that much worse than what we do unconsciously to animals every day? Some of us forget that dogs are mere animals, and that animal mistreatment is as American as Apple iPods. Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. None of us is pure.

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Michael Vick Guinea Pigs Animal Cruelty Animal Abuse 100

Animal Person

APRIL 9, 2009

She eats eggs for their protein. She can't eat a lot of nuts or nut butters, though she does love them so. She's so close. And sometimes cheese. She doesn't tolerate beans and already takes probiotics and digestive enzymes. She might be gluten intolerant. She is very thin and has a history of gut-related issues.

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Vegan Eating Eggs Ethics Eggs 100

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.

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