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

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. 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., We have a hard enough time figuring out what makes people happy, but chickens?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The crow in the photograph above is unreleasable and lives at Teatown Lake Reservation in New York. While I was getting him acclimated to go in the outdoor flight, he had free range of my studio. Crows, who are probably the most larcenous birds on earth, make off with anything they can get their beaks on.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Irene Muschel New York, April 9, 2009 To the Editor: Nicholas D. 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. I was 4 or 5, and I cringed. Kristof’s column.

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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

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. Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov. 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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