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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9) does little to advance the debate on farm animal housing. Research indicates that sows do just fine in individual housing. Decisions on how best to house farm animals should be left to the family farmers, like me, who care for their animals every day.

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Adopt-a-Pet.com Guest Post

4 The Love Of Animals

When that animal is available, I am notified the next time a pet matching my search is added on Adopt-a-Pet.com. As of this summer we have now made it easy for our visitors to find pets and then recommend them to friends and family via Facebook, Twitter and other social applications. We are calling the idea “Social Petworking.”

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Another Reason to Go Vegetarian

Animal Ethics

We can thank factory farming for yet another antibiotic-resistant supergerm: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). Smith studied two large Midwestern hog farms and found ST398, the virulent strain of MRSA, in 45 percent of farmers and 49 percent of hogs. All evidence points to factory farms. We've seen this with E.