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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! And just for fun, here are some interesting facts: o In the United States there are a total of 77.5 of Dogs and Cats in the United States are either overweight or obese[2]. million dogs and 93.6

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

5, 2009 To the Editor: I ate my last hamburger last night. In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that irradiating half the meat and poultry consumed in the United States would mean 900,000 fewer cases of food-borne illness and 350 fewer deaths each year. 4): Your article about E. Smith the very best.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Regardless of what we choose to eat, doing so will reduce our dietary carbon footprint by half because “about half of the food produced in the United States is thrown away.” 2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Toney Union, N.J.,