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Trader Joe's Eggs NOT Humane

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Trader Joe's, a national specialty grocer, offers a large range of vegan and soy products. They are debeaked because that is necessary to keep them from injuring each other." They are debeaked because that is necessary to keep them from injuring each other." They also offer "Cage Free" eggs.

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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. The two objections to a vegan Thanksgiving that I hear most often are: It's our tradition and Because it tastes good. It's our tradition.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Free rangeā€ 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.

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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 couldnā€™t eat them and save them. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

In addition, the animals are subjected to excruciating mutilations ā€“ including branding, dehorning, debeaking, tooth pulling, tail docking, and castration ā€“ all performed without anesthesia. The noxious fumes from the accumulated urine and feces cause lung problems in many of the animals.