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EU Bans Battery Cages

Critter News

To offset yesterday's crappy news about California, here's good news from the EU! Others have arranged for barns or other free-range systems, but the law now clearly reserves hens a seat at a nest. Full article on Food Safety News. As of Jan. Duncan, Ph.D.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.