Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Sun Dec 14, 2014, 07:08 PM Dec 2014

Christian Science Monitor: The New Ethics of Eating

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2014/1207/The-new-ethics-of-eating?cmpid=editorpicks&google_editors_picks=true

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LAKESIDE, CALIF. — Barn No. 5 at Hilliker’s Ranch Fresh Eggs is about to become a state-of-the-art multiplex for hens. Two massive scaffolding-like structures, each the length of four school buses, are getting their final nuts and bolts, and in a few weeks, 8,000 cage-free chickens will come thronging and clucking into these new “aviary” roosts. Moving freely around the barn, they will perch on rows of shiny bars, nest on private mats, and quench their thirst from tiny water nipples. While one conveyor belt whisks chicken waste out the door, another one will collect the bounty – a nonstop supply of brown and white eggs.
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I hope it works well enough to become a standard Warpy Dec 2014 #1

Warpy

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1. I hope it works well enough to become a standard

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Sun Dec 14, 2014, 07:15 PM

Dec 2014

I have no problem with factory production done right, with the welfare of the animals beyond physical growth or egg/milk production taken into equal account.

Chickens are pretty social birds and isolating them in egg cages where they couldn't socialize or even move is cruel. I've eaten free range eggs for years, thinking that being able to see the sun and smell fresh air an hour a day has got to be better than chicken prison.

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