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...bison entrée in the photo was mouthwatering, but farming an animal for its meat could hardly be characterized as giving it a chance at life. There is something unutterably sick and unnerving about the idea that life is somehow worth living when it inevitably leads to someone's dinner plate. Jason J. Yuen, CHICAGO...
...opened skulls when the pressing blood threatened his patients' lives. The rest of the team was clearly a little bored with this Jack of all Trades. He noticed it and I flushed with embarrassment for him. I connected with this little man. Head, hands and heart devoted to the sick, he could handle any problem. He was the doctor I wanted to be. This was 25 years...
Farming an animal for its meat could hardly be characterized as giving it a chance at life. There is something sick about the idea that life is somehow worth living when it inevitably leads to someone's dinner plate...
...growing number of complaints about sick and dying animals who ate only dry food, which typically does not contain wheat gluten, is another reason some authorities question whether melamine is the real culprit. Bruce Friedrich, Vice President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has urged the FDA to test for excessive levels of vitamin D; last year a manufacturing error led to too much of the vitamin in Royal Canin pet food, causing kidney failure and death in several animals. But Goldstein says excessive vitamin D is unlikely, since blood tests would show high calcium levels, which...
...Back in Nanuku, Dharmendra Prasad's three-year-old son is sick. Prasad can't tell if the skinny toddler's illness came from the faecal scum in the open drain next to the family's tin shanty, or from the clouds of mosquitoes swarming among the surrounding mangroves. He just hopes it doesn't worsen because he hasn't enough money to feed his family, let alone pay doctors' bills. For the past three weeks, the father of three has failed to obtain his regular $2 an hour construction work; a messenger has just dropped by to tell...