Debeaking Free Range Slaughter 
Animal Ethics
APRIL 16, 2009
Would we say these people were slaughtered in a “people friendly” manner? Confinement is confinement, mutilation is mutilation, and slaughter is slaughter. To the Editor: The term “free range” sounds prettier than it usually is. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane. Caroline Abels Montpelier, Vt.,
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 20, 2007
Free range” does not solve the problem of painful debeaking, enormously oversized flocks or the unnatural isolation of the birds from other sexes and age groups. Though chickens can live for 5 to 11 years, after two years, they are hauled away to slaughter just like battery-caged hens.
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