Compassionate Action for Animals, a University of Minnesota student organization, has launched a campaign to persuade the University food services to offer eggs from chickens who have not been tortured in little cages all their lives.This is a good project, and it deserves active support even from people who are fed up with causes. The idea that values should guide decisions is a big important idea, and this campaign proposes to serve people that idea for breakfast every morning. Further, this action is very close to the tipping point for this issue: as the market for eggs from tortured chickens diminishes, the torture will diminish. And a successful action of this kind at a major university will set a precedent for similar actions in lots of other places. Also, as students disperse, thousands of restaurants will be asked: "Do you have a cage free option on your menu?" This is a fight that can be won.
Ethics is about lots of things. One thing it is about is letting chickens be chickens.
Posted by shea0017 at December 8, 2005 9:25 AM