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 Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

We have a hard enough time figuring out what makes people happy, but chickens? The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. 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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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

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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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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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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