Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Would we say these people were slaughtered in a “people friendly” manner? Confinement is confinement, mutilation is mutilation, and slaughter is slaughter. To the Editor: The term “free range” sounds prettier than it usually is. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane. Caroline Abels Montpelier, Vt.,

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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. Though chickens can live for 5 to 11 years, after two years, they are hauled away to slaughter just like battery-caged hens.

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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. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Indeed, in Ms. They also help with pest control.

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