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...extra dollars would cause a significant change; HUDS’s egg demand makes it responsible for its supplier, Kreider Eggs, using an entire football-length row of cages stacked four high. The environmental costs are immense: the sheer density of birds at such operations produces large quantities of ammonia that pollute the surrounding air and water. Environmental organizations from the Sierra Club to the National Environmental Trust have condemned battery cage farming...
...Cage-free farms, by contrast, are smaller and spread out to reduce environmental impact. The cage-free farm that HUDS has said it would use, Pete & Gerry’s, is U.S. Department of Agiculture Organic Approved, meaning that it does not use irradiated materials or genetically modified organisms, and only feeds 100 percent organic feed to its hens. Furthermore, the new facility would be closer to Cambridge, reducing transport carbon emissions and naturally extending HUDS’s existing “buy local” campaign...
...students may even notice a taste improvement. Dartmouth College switched to Pete & Gerry’s cage-free eggs in part after a blind taste test found that students preferred their flavor over that of caged eggs...
HUDS has shown a strong commitment to increasing healthy meal options and promoting sustainable food production. In the coming weeks it has the opportunity to extend that commitment to environmentally friendly and humane animal care. We urge it do so, and beat the EU to adopting completely cage-free eggs...
...with it.” But whatever her roommates think about her hamster, Laura still needs to protect it from the prying eyes of her super, and her mom. Zoë has spent time chilling out in the closet to avoid detection, and Laura says she might cover the cage with a towel during the next room check. Morgan M.W. Jessee ’09 sums up the general feeling on the subject, saying pets are okay with her as long as they’re in miniature: “Little ones, nothing that is going to poop...