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Critter News
APRIL 12, 2009
By removing eggs from their ingredient list, BOCA is withdrawing financial support for factory farms that use battery-cages. We anticipate all BOCA products will be egg free in 2010." They are striking a blow against the cruel egg industry. Whether or not you choose to eat eggs, this is a major victory for animals.
Critter News
JULY 8, 2011
Similar legislation, on hold as a result of today’s agreement, was planned in Washington State and Oregon.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
The motion, which comes to the Metro Vancouver board on Friday (February 27), encourages stores and restaurants to promote organic free-range eggs; makes Metro Vancouver caterers and operators use organic free-range eggs; and will result in letters to Victoria, Ottawa, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency opposing current practices “based on the (..)
Animal Person
JUNE 17, 2009
By encouraging people to bake with higher welfare eggs (as well as organic milk, butter and chocolate) vital funds will be raised to campaign against battery cages. From the 6th -10th of July we are asking everyone to get their aprons on and bake with free-range or organic eggs.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 6, 2014
To the Editor: Re “They’re Going to Wish They All Could Be California Hens” (front page, March 4): While the conditions in California’s colony cages are certainly better than those of the barren battery cages used for 90 percent of egg-laying hens in this country, they still involve cramming 60 animals into a wire cage, each bird with just 116 square (..)
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
For example, "free roaming chickens" conjures up images of happy chickens running free and unfettered all about the barnyard, when in fact the label "free roaming chickens" just means chickens that were not raised in battery cages. Calling an inhumane practice "humane" does not make that practice humane.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
Layer hens spend their entire lives permanently confined in battery cages with 6-9 other hens and have only half a square foot of living space per bird. What might be less obvious is that each of these reasons actually gives us a reason to adopt an entirely plant-based vegan diet, devoid of animal products.
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