Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I looked online and all I could find was this article on The Vegetarian Site. If, in fact, Trader Joe's deems debeaking as necessary, then this immediately reveals the high density of birds. Tags: eggs consumption farm animal welfare groceries. But are they really free-range eggs?

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

Factory farms are concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) where animals are raised intensively and permanently confined in warehouses and sheds. Ninety-seven percent of all poultry are raised in sheds containing over 100,000 birds, and hog facilities routinely house thousands of hogs in the same building.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,” by Gary Steiner (Op-Ed, Nov. 22): Mr. Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Chris Taylor Lawrence, Kan.,

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

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. Push-ups, sit-ups, carrying 50-pound bags of bird seed—and I will be 71 in May. Being “kind” to the animals has been great for my quality of life.

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