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.
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
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Perhaps in order to qualify for a moral elite one should become a heroic vegetarian like Peter Singer. 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. I am myself not so heroic.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat. In the name of moral consistency I became a vegetarian four years ago. However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go. We carnivores have to become more benevolent. Why was a dog more worthy of not being dinner than a pig?
Animal Ethics
APRIL 16, 2009
In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. 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.
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