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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. The debeaking of hens and other routine cruelties of egg production are seldom put before the public. In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Free range” does not solve the problem of painful debeaking, enormously oversized flocks or the unnatural isolation of the birds from other sexes and age groups. Let chickens be chickens, and avoid the whole moral dilemma by going vegan. All of the male hatchlings are either smothered or ground up alive.