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To My Friends at Thanksgiving

Animal Person

There will be no pies or cakes that were made with milk that was meant for calves, or eggs that represent dead male chicks , forced molting, debeaking and other mutilations and cruelties. There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Egg production, including on free-range farms, entails the mass killing of newborn male chicks, a point made in Nicholas D. Hens in all forms of egg production endure an equally cruel execution once their profitability has declined. The debeaking of hens and other routine cruelties of egg production are seldom put before the public.