Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Of course even though they may not have the capacity for happiness and suffering that whales have, nevertheless I would suppose that chickens can suffer quite a lot, even though their consciousness should be very much a sort of daze, and this should be taken into account in our dealings with them. I am myself not so heroic.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. To the Editor: The term “free range” sounds prettier than it usually is. The debeaking of hens and other routine cruelties of egg production are seldom put before the public.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that. The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. That sounds like a win-win to us. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,

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