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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

Critter News

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “farm animals are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) only when used in biomedical research, testing, teaching and exhibition. As such, most people do not consider the potential abuse that may have taken place to bring their hamburger onto their dinner plate.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

5, 2009 To the Editor: I ate my last hamburger last night. But Stephanie Smith’s very tragic hamburger-induced affliction provides me with still another excuse (as if I needed one) to shun the carnivorous ways of so many of my fellow beings. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct. 4): Your article about E.

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Book: Scent of the Missing

4 The Love Of Animals

We learn to trust the dog across the hundreds of increasingly-difficult test searches we do in training together, but it’s sometimes tempting to give in to doubt and try to take over. It doesn’t take much for them to learn that we need them to find human scent –and not other animals, dropped hamburgers, or unspecified gook.

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