A 2010 report from United Nations Environment Program’s (UNEP) International Panel of Sustainable Resource Management, states that global shift towards a vegan diet is critical for mitigating global issues of hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change. The panel declared: “Impacts from agriculture are expected to increase ( Read more... )

Wayne Pacelle, the President and CEO of HSUS, wants us to believe that Mike Vick is a changed man. He sure tried to talk the talk. But I think his more recent words get to the core of the problem: The man does not think he did anything wrong.

"A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for ( Read more... )

Japan rocked by 8.8/8.9 quake, large aftershocks, and a tsunami reported to reach heights of more than 13 feet (I've also heard news say waves of over 20 feet and up to 30 feet) in some locations. 19 confirmed deaths and that number is expected to rise ( Read more... )

    "But Dec. 1, veterinarians across the country received a letter from Merial, makers of Immiticide (melarsomine dihydrocholoride), the only U.S.-licensed drug to treat adult heartworm infection in dogs. Some time ago, Merial acquired the only other approved adult heartworm treatment and ceased manufacturing it. Then pharmaceutical giant Sanofi- ( Read more... )

Rescued dogs trained in Search and Rescue are deploying to Haiti to locate survivors.

And there are still so many people out there who think rescue dogs are inferior.

"I've overcome a lot, more than probably one single individual can handle or bear," Vick said. "You ask certain people to walk through my shoes, they probably couldn't do. Probably 95 percent of the people in this world because nobody had to endure what I've been through, situations I've been put in, situations I put myself in and decisions I have ( Read more... )

Employer must pay for obesity surgery: "Childers, who was then 25, weighed 340 pounds in March 2007 when he was accidentally struck in the back by a freezer door. Doctors said he needed surgery to ease his severe pain, but that the operation would do him no good unless he first had surgery to reduce his weight, which rose to 380 pounds after the ( Read more... )

Proposed bill SB79 would make owning, possessing or selling pit bulls a misdemeanor in Hawai'i

Please send your POLITE AND RESPECTFUL opposition to SB79 and similar breed specific legislation to members of the JGO Committee:
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"Because many counties in Virginia failed to mail absentee ballots in time to our men and women in uniform stationed overseas, service members are being disenfranchised because they are unable to return their ballots before the November 4 deadline," campaign spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said... Read more... )

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