AVMA News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Department of Agriculture is stepping up efforts to ensure the veracity of claims about food animal products marketed as "free range" and "antibiotic free."

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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. But are they really free-range eggs? Trader Joe's, a national specialty grocer, offers a large range of vegan and soy products. They also offer "Cage Free" eggs.

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Eggs Cage Free Debeaking Humane 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

And that experience has recently put me in a role of an ecotourism consultant in a project aiming at creation of a local ecotourism product. 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.

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Animal Person

APRIL 25, 2009

And most recently, Organix (free-range chicken plus some organic ingredients). If they don't thrive on a diet without animals, then they should eat some animal products. I'm choosing to believe I willed it to happen because I just couldn't take buying all of those animal products. But that has changed, for some reason.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Temptations treats include the All Naturals range; available in 4 all natural flavors – Wild Alaskan Salmon, Beef Tenderloin, Free Range Chicken and Yellow Fin Tuna, these natural cat treats have added vitamins and minerals.

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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. Hens in all forms of egg production endure an equally cruel execution once their profitability has declined.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. 20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that.

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