Cruelty Free Range New York Times Vegetarian 
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.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 16, 2009
After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. 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. Kristof’s column.
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