Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I decided to look online for some information regarding the "Organic Free Range Eggs" that Trader Joe's, my favorite store, sells. Now customers looking for cage-free eggs need to look no further than the Trader Joe's label. But are they really free-range eggs? Here is what their web site says.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Egg Producers and Humane Society Urging Federal Standard on Hen Cages ” (Business Day, July 8): I’m a vegetarian who turned vegan after coming to terms with the fact that just because I was eating hormone-free, antibiotic-free, even free-range organic eggs didn’t mean that egg-producing hens were living a cruelty-free life.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat. In the name of moral consistency I became a vegetarian four years ago. However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go. We carnivores have to become more benevolent.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Kristof (column, April 9): Thank you for this inspiring and enlightening article. In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. To the Editor: The term “free range” sounds prettier than it usually is. Animals raised for food suffer miserably.

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