Your Positions

• We should all be vegetarian. Animals should never be killed or mistreated, but it is OK to use them for milk and eggs, because it can done without harming them. (Start over)

• I only shop at Whole Foods / farmers’ markets, and always buy the most expensive stuff, so none of what you said about factory farming applies to the eggs and dairy I buy. (Go back)

Things to Consider

Check out this Erin Janus video video. Whole Foods has been well documented to source from factory farms. You are being sold a lie.

Terms like “free range” and “certified humane” are designed by the animal agriculture industry to extract more money out of consumers. They do very little for the welfare of animals, and have definitions so lax as to be almost meaningless. Buying the more expensive product does not magically make what you buy more humane. There are plenty of expensive items of clothing produced by children in sweatshops. If a company is willing to use psychological manipulation through deceptive marketing to get you to pay so much more for their products, what makes you trust that they really care about ethics?

When it comes to farmers’ markets, those farmers are still using the same standard practices, while involve killing the animals when they become “useless” after the first quarter of their natural life. But you should already know this, because you read the “Things to Consider” section on (the previous page). If so, why are you even here? You know that most of that stuff about factory farming applies to all the eggs and dairy you buy. You are in denial, my ethically confused friend.