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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

My doctor says my tremendous health and strength are due to my being a vegan. To the Editor: The term “free range” sounds prettier than it usually is. Egg production, including on free-range farms, entails the mass killing of newborn male chicks, a point made in Nicholas D. Caroline Abels Montpelier, Vt.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Niman obscures the well-evidenced connection between veganism and environmentalism. 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. Borrowing a move from the tobacco industry, Ms. Contrary to Ms. Indeed, in Ms.