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. Hetty Alcuitas, a volunteer with Grassroots Women, said she sympathizes with the environmental and animal-rights arguments against caged chickens. Not everyone has that luxury.
Animal Person
AUGUST 19, 2009
The students learn to debone a chicken and slice cheese. I wonder how much the students learn about the chicken and where the carcass came from and what happens during the life of a chicken. The kids made tortillas from scratch and then went to a factory to see how professionals do it. Any other factories on the agenda?
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Animal Person
AUGUST 23, 2009
What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation. Essentially, industrialized farming=soulless, small family farm=soulful. Food for my soul does not involve grilled greyhound any more than it involves grilled chicken. Kristof writes of the "decent and varied lives" that small farms provide animals with.
Animal Ethics
JULY 21, 2010
To the Editor: In your July 12 editorial “ A Humane Egg ,” you disparage the modern, sanitary housing systems for egg-laying hens, which have improved chickens’ health and well-being, improved consumer food safety and kept eggs a nutritious and economical staple on kitchen tables and restaurant menus nationwide.
Animal Ethics
JULY 15, 2009
We can thank factory farming for yet another antibiotic-resistant supergerm: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). In recent years, MRSA has been found in retail cuts of chicken, pork, beef and other meats—a particularly worrisome trend since MRSA can be contracted simply by handling infected cuts of meat.
Critter News
OCTOBER 19, 2008
These are not farming families, folks, but corporations as powerful and ruthless as anything on Wall Street. Tags: eggs farm animal welfare factory farm chickens. Don't think banks are the only ones gobbling each other up nowadays. So are egg corporations. Thanks to an email from Farmed Animal Net for this information.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.” Jonathan Spitz Westfield, N.J.,
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