Critter News

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

I am a firm supporter of reforming factory egg farming. I believe that chickens should have room to stretch and walk around. And I'm willing to pay for more expensive eggs if it allows for that. Organic eggs are more expensive than the standard egg carton. Not everyone has that luxury.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2010

15): I have one very simple piece of advice for consumers interested in higher-quality eggs from humanely treated chickens: stop buying eggs at the grocery store. The eggs we eat come from chickens that spend their days outside, scratching and eating grubs. I'll never go back. Josh Miner La Crosse, Wis.,

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

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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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

We have a hard enough time figuring out what makes people happy, but chickens? The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. Are they happier scratching around the barnyard or sitting confined in cages?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ Suddenly, the Hunt Is On for Cage-Free Eggs ” (front page, Aug. 12): While this is a step in the right direction toward reducing the animal abuse inherent in all factory farming (from the chicken’s point of view), it’s still a long way from what nature intended. Jean Bettanny Port Townsend, Wash.,

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