Thanks to Mercy for Animals for their undercover work exposing this egg industry practice. What a subject line, but it's true. This is the second time this year that I've heard of this group capturing headlines. I'd never heard of them before. I'm very impressed by their courage and tenacity. MORE >>

And, at this point, I'd rather have oceans with healthy fisheries for the seafood industry than those without any fisheries left at all. We support two ocean protection organizations: People for Puget Sound (local) and the Ocean Conservancy. was reading Ocean Conservancy's magazine today. The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole. MORE >>

CEO James Foster said consolidation in the biotechnology industry, an overall slowdown in research and budgetary constraints has led to a decrease in demand for the company's services, the BBJ reports. Good riddance as far as I'm concerned. Here's the brief announcement from the Boston Business Journal in its entirety. MORE >>

read the following in a book about the pharmaceutical industry by Marcia Angell (the first woman to serve as the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and currently a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School) called The Truth about the Drug Companies. This is a continuation of an earlier post about why I question animal testing. MORE >>

The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. That's one of the reasons adopting wasn't a stretch for me at all mentally. MORE >>