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Clemson Researcher Investigates Impacts of Cages on Laying Hens

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How much suffering can and should they endure without significantly affecting the human pocketbook. 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 The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68

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Surprising NYTimes Editorial about National Egg Production

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The editorial advocates a national standard that establishes humane standards in all parts of the country. Surprising to me at least.

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From Today's New York Times

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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. Chickens deserve to live humanely. Compassionate consumers can take a stand against this cruelty by choosing vegan options.

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

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This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens. I am myself not so heroic.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

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There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

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I still eat eggs that come from battery hens, even though I do try to buy free range, and I wear leather, even though I only buy it used. Vick lost millions of dollars in income, spent hard time in prison, and faced public scorn for actions that did not lead to the abuse of one single human being. None of us is pure.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Battery Pt. Big Egg Marsh. Still, the list will be as complete as we can keep it and will be updated on the first Saturday of every month. 05 Jan 2016.

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