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. But are they really free-range eggs? Trader Joe's, a national specialty grocer, offers a large range of vegan and soy products. They also offer "Cage Free" eggs.
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
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. My doctor says my tremendous health and strength are due to my being a vegan. Push-ups, sit-ups, carrying 50-pound bags of bird seed—and I will be 71 in May. Caroline Abels Montpelier, Vt., Kristof’s column.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Niman obscures the well-evidenced connection between veganism and environmentalism. Birds need only a fraction of the food that cattle do to gain a pound of meat. A “free range” bird eats insects, as well as plants, so it gets more nutrition out of the same amount of land than do her cattle, which eat only the grass.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 20, 2007
Free range” does not solve the problem of painful debeaking, enormously oversized flocks or the unnatural isolation of the birds from other sexes and age groups. Let chickens be chickens, and avoid the whole moral dilemma by going vegan. All of the male hatchlings are either smothered or ground up alive.
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