Word: speciesism
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Good, Clean Eating Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked if there are real benefits to organic fruits and vegetables [Sept. 3]. He answered the question in typically contemporary fashion by analyzing only nutritional value - in other words, How does it affect me? A different answer might be reached if we look at...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked if there are real benefits to organic fruits and vegetables [Aug. 20]. He answered the question by analyzing only nutritional value. A different answer might be reached if we look at the health of workers who manufacture and apply chemical fertilizers and pesticides and of those...
Here in Chaoyang, an impoverished northeastern Chinese city surrounded by cornfields where farmers still use horse-drawn plows, prehistoric bones have jump-started the economy in a way no free-trade zone or joint venture could have done. The region shot to fame in the mid-1990s when paleontologists began...
Even scientists are not above turning to Chaoyang's markets in the interests of science. Xu Xing, a paleontologist who has discovered more dinosaur species than anyone in history, says several of his finds came from such dealers. "I don't feel good when I buy fossils, so I'm...
Still, a few scientists may get the chance to examine Lucy while she is in the U.S. A team headed by anthropologist John Kappelman, of the University of Texas at Austin, has requested permission to conduct a high-resolution CT scan of the bones. By scrutinizing their internal architecture, "we...