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Reasons to Choose a Pet-Friendly Retirement Community

4 The Love Of Animals

And no matter what pet you own — be it a snake, a turtle, a ferret, a hamster or guinea pig, an aquarium full of exotic fish, or perhaps an iguana — you want to be sure that your senior living community supports your pet living there. Or you never really wanted to because of the time and energy required, but you still love animals.

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Water Worries—How We're Drugging Other Species

Animal Ethics

It's a problem for animals, particularly aquatic animals, as well. For example, exposure to these substances is negatively impacting the reproductive abilities of some fish species, threatening their extinction. Closer to home, the AP story reports that: fish collected in waterways near or in Chicago; West Chester, Pa.;

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,