Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I decided to look online for some information regarding the "Organic Free Range Eggs" that Trader Joe's, my favorite store, sells. Now customers looking for cage-free eggs need to look no further than the Trader Joe's label. But are they really free-range eggs? Here is what their web site says.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

An abstract of a scientific paper reads as follows (unabridged): “External examination of free range abandoned dead Greater Coucal in a veterinary dispensary, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India revealed presence of a large sized louse in the feathers and was identified as Laemobothrion maximum on the basis of morphology and size of the louse.”

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

While I was getting him acclimated to go in the outdoor flight, he had free range of my studio. All she could see was the lamp flying off her head, apparently by itself.”. “I I took in an imprinted Blue Jay one winter,” wrote Kim Doner of Oklahoma’s WING-IT.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

But with battery eggs costing about $2 a dozen and organic free-range eggs costing between $5 and $6 a dozen, the impact of the proposed change goes beyond poultry. Hetty Alcuitas, a volunteer with Grassroots Women, said she sympathizes with the environmental and animal-rights arguments against caged chickens.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

But I was on a work deadline, so by the time I arrived at the zoo the vulture had eaten several pork chops and some very nice free-range chicken. they said, “come on over and we’ll give you as much as you need.” Yes,” I said to my friend, “there’s some other stuff you can feed him.”.

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Critter News

JANUARY 25, 2012

Others have arranged for barns or other free-range systems, but the law now clearly reserves hens a seat at a nest. Most farmers in participating countries have opted for the enriched cages, installing roomier enclosures that allow hens to stretch their wings, roost on an elevated platform and nest in a designated nesting area.

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). He recently wrote me: We are an abolitionist group and our approach is "Educate, Investigate & Liberate". Thanks a lot.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 14, 2009

Their bully sticks are inspected and approved by USDA/FDA, and come from free range, grass fed bulls. Best Bully Sticks offers an all natural choice for your dog’s chewing enjoyment. Not only are they made from quality ingredients, they seem to taste really, really, good.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

However knowledgeable you might be, you cannot know for sure that an uninjured, free-ranging bird will be waiting for you where it usually does. And one final piece of advice: if you consider working as a guide, absolutely erase the word “guaranteed” from your vocabulary.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 10, 2009

Here is a New York Times op-ed column about free-range pigs. He seems to think that the demand for free-range pork is a demand for wild pork, when in fact it's a demand for morally acceptable conditions for the pigs. The author is confused.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Manufactured treats are available in a wide range of brand names, and its important to scrutinize their contents in order to make sure the best quality, most natural ingredients have been used, rather than the cheapest fillers with an exceptionally high calorie count. Temptations treats.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4 A certain number of these deaths are caused by humans, directly or indirectly. How many birds to cats kill in the United States?

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Animal Person

APRIL 25, 2009

And most recently, Organix (free-range chicken plus some organic ingredients). Despite Violet's diabetes, she was never the problem. The problem child was Charles and his irritable bowels, which would make a meal of any kind into liquid in no time.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Egg Producers and Humane Society Urging Federal Standard on Hen Cages ” (Business Day, July 8): I’m a vegetarian who turned vegan after coming to terms with the fact that just because I was eating hormone-free, antibiotic-free, even free-range organic eggs didn’t mean that egg-producing hens were living a cruelty-free life.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2010

I distribute locally produced, free-range eggs from my home to a small group of friends, but these kinds of eggs are widely available through farmers' markets at prices that range from $2 to $3.50 To the Editor: Re " A Hen's Space to Roost ” (Week in Review, Aug.

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

From the 6th -10th of July we are asking everyone to get their aprons on and bake with free-range or organic eggs. Having read your blogs I thought you might like to hear about Compassion in World Farming’s Bake with Compassion fundraising week.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

To the Editor: The term “free range” sounds prettier than it usually is. Egg production, including on free-range farms, entails the mass killing of newborn male chicks, a point made in Nicholas D. Caroline Abels Montpelier, Vt., Kristof’s column. However, it is not just the male chicks that are routinely executed.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Moreover at present I see no moral objection to eating the flesh of free range cattle, which seem to me to have a happy life which they would not have at all if they were not destined to be eaten. Perhaps in order to qualify for a moral elite one should become a heroic vegetarian like Peter Singer. I am myself not so heroic.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Words like 'pastured,' 'grass-fed,' and 'free-range' are now synonymous with quality meat; they carry a potent if symbolic meaning that has eased many a consumer’s conscience and driven many a marketing campaign." Interestingly, the campaigns of happy meaters are acknowledged for perhaps being somewhat of a scam with the next sentence.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

When I started blogging, I thought that if more people sought out free-range, grass-fed "beef," more animals would be saved/fewer would be created. Lesson #15 It's okay to change your mind.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat. However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go. We carnivores have to become more benevolent. Arguments like "Let Them Eat Dog" caricatures the antifactory farm position, which is a shame because it's an important argument to hear.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. We have a hard enough time figuring out what makes people happy, but chickens? Are they happier scratching around the barnyard or sitting confined in cages? But let’s not play psychiatrist with other animals’ minds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. billion birds and 6.9–20.7

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

A “free range” bird eats insects, as well as plants, so it gets more nutrition out of the same amount of land than do her cattle, which eat only the grass. Birds need only a fraction of the food that cattle do to gain a pound of meat. Indeed, in Ms. They also help with pest control.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2020

The Brown-headed “Bison-birds” learned to be Cowbirds, and expanded their range coast-to-coast, and into almost all of Mexico. Also, as ranchers increasingly moved their free-range cattle into feedlots, they settled down and became incredibly numerous. Starling -numerous.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Also frequent escapees (or very free ranging domestics) are guinea fowl and to a lesser extent a number of other gamebirds up to and including peacocks. If you think I’m exaggerating head off the beaten path on almost any of the Virgin Islands and see how long it takes for you to get caught out.

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

I still eat eggs that come from battery hens, even though I do try to buy free range, and I wear leather, even though I only buy it used. But the rest of us rat-killing, horse-racing, lobster-boiling, deer-hunting carnivores should take the planks out of our eyes before trying to remove the speck from Vick's. None of us is pure.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

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. Chickens enjoy being together in small flocks, sunning, dust bathing and scratching in the soil for food.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2024

The authors of the study think it is (maybe they need more grants): “Comparing the differences in gut microbiota function and composition of captive and semi-free-range red-crowned cranes is critical for conservation management and policy-making” As usual, they forgot world peace as a key argument. Is this relevant?

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