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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures

Critter News

But the seal industry doesn't care. Dr. Philippe Pibarot has been studying seal heart valves to see if they might be a better transplant option for humans than those from cows or pigs, believing they may be more durable than the other animal tissue. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

I dispute Dr. Miller’s assertion that rBGH-injected cows can help reduce milk prices. But I do know that the dairy industry and its lobbyists do not want to require labeling milk produced with rBST. Susan Levin Washington, June 29, 2007 To the Editor: Urging more hormone injection of cows to increase milk production is backward.