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Life Along The Delaware Bay: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Once used as fertilizer, the crabs are now harvested as bait for common whelk and bled for an extract used in medical research. Most articles on the Delaware Bay focus on horseshoe crabs and Red Knots. All photographs used in this article are by Jan Van de Kam and used courtesy of Rutgers University Press.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Nina Planck’s article touches on a particularly important topic. The medical journal Lancet recently published findings showing that children who are not adequately nourished in the first five years of life sometimes never catch up to their peers. I’ve raised a vegan child since conception. Children need protein.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. There simply is no dispute in the medical community that human breast milk is the best food a human infant can be fed. As this Newsweek article and this Washington Post article report, when Gillette boarded a flight from Burlington, Vermont to New York on Oct.

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