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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Part III: Pepper Goes to Washington. To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We But the question is how can we properly address that?

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

Very importantly, the breast-feeding years create emotional security in the child through the many hours of intimate contact with the mother. (Dr. 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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