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Hill’s PetFit Challenge

4 The Love Of Animals

In an industry first, Hill’s Science Diet Weight Loss System offers pre-packaged meals for your dog! o If you feed a 20lb dog one ounce of cheddar cheese it’s the equivalent of a 5’4” woman eating one and a half hamburgers or one chocolate bar. million dogs and 93.6 million cats[1]. o An Estimated 51.5% Click to view full size.

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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

Critter News

The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there.

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Industrial Agriculture

Animal Ethics

Moore looks like he has eaten one too many hamburgers.) Think of all the progressives— Michael Moore , for example—who either eat meat or go out of their way to ridicule vegetarians. Many progressives care only about human beings. Many conservatives care about animals as well as human beings.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It also offers an equally harsh negative judgment of the federal authorities whose mandate is to protect the integrity of the public’s food supply chain but who have chosen to interpret this responsibility so lightly as to let such claims stand while ignoring repeated offenses by the industry. 4): Your article about E.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

31): Would the average American have believed that hamburgers were treated with ammonia to remove salmonella and E. It, too, traced, with a great deal of investigative reporting, the journey fat trimmings take through the meatpacking industry. labor costs and saving the lives of hamburger lovers. No outside fat trimmings!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

What would the cost of a hamburger at Burger King or McDonald’s be if the meat were to come from Ms. Borrowing a move from the tobacco industry, Ms. Niman’s ranch and others using comparable methods? How many people would be able to afford the price? Lois Bloom Easton, Conn., Contrary to Ms.