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More on Milk - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • the links between milk (or dairy) and such a broad range of ailments has not been well studied, at least by the medical establishment.
  • Yet if you speak with people who’ve had these kinds of reactive problems, it would appear that the medical establishment is among the last places you’d want to turn for advice.
  • the job of an agriculture department should not be to sell whatever crops our farmers can grow most efficiently, it should be to encourage the growth of crops that will benefit the greatest number of Americans. Those crops are not corn and soy, grown largely to create hyper-processed food or animal feed (and in turn animal products), but an increasing variety of plants that can be directly eaten by humans.
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  • for many doctors drugs are the answer to almost every condition, a situation that suits Big Pharma just fine.
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    More on Milk By MARK BITTMAN Mark Bittman on food and all things related. TAGS: DAIRY, DIETS, MILK Not surprisingly, experiences like mine with dairy, outlined in my column of two weeks ago, are more common than unusual, at least according to the roughly 1,300 comments and e-mails we received since then. In them, people outlined their experiences with dairy and health problems as varied as heartburn, migraines, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, eczema, acne, hives, asthma ("When I gave up dairy, my asthma went away completely"), gall bladder issues, body aches, ear infections, colic, "seasonal allergies," rhinitis, chronic sinus infections and more. (One writer mentioned an absence of canker sores after cutting dairy; I realized I hadn't had a canker sore - which I've gotten an average of once a month my whole life - in four months. Something else to think about.) Although lactose intolerance and its generalized digestive tract problems are well documented, and milk allergies are thought to affect perhaps 1 percent of the American population, the links between milk (or dairy) and such a broad range of ailments has not been well studied, at least by the medical establishment. RELATED Mark Bittman: Got Milk? You Don't Need It Yet if you speak with people who've had these kinds of reactive problems, it would appear that the medical establishment is among the last places you'd want to turn for advice. Nearly everyone who complained of heartburn, for example, later resolved by eliminating dairy, had a story of a doctor (usually a gastroenterologist) prescribing a proton pump inhibitor, or P.P.I., a drug (among the most prescribed in the United States) that blocks the production of acid in the stomach. But - like statins - P.P.I.s don't address underlying problems, nor are they "cures." They address only the symptom, not its cause, and they are only effective while the user takes them. Thus in the last few days I'
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The Politics of Pet Dogs and Kennel Crates | Psychology Today - 0 views

  • Apparently, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) recently began an ad campaign condemning the use of crates for dogs, under any circumstances. Thus a recent half page ad in the Wall Street Journal has the heading "Be an Angel for Animals" and goes on to say "Don't ever crate or chain them."
  • "No matter what a pet shop owner or dog trainer might say, a dog crate is just a box with holes in it, and putting dogs in crates is just a way to ignore and warehouse them until you get around to taking care of them properly."
  • PETA is not against the practice of crating, but it is actually against the practice of pet ownership.
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  • Thus they state "we believe that it would have been in the animals' best interests if the institution of 'pet keeping'-i.e., breeding animals to be kept and regarded as 'pets'-never existed."  They also go on to say, "This selfish desire to possess animals and receive love from them causes immeasurable suffering".
  • The crux of their argument against pet keeping seems to be that we are "depriving them of the opportunity to engage in their natural behavior. They are restricted to human homes, where they must obey commands and can only eat, drink, and even urinate when humans allow them to." I must admit that I found this to be particularly puzzling and unsatisfying. My wife and I have raised five children, and have nine grandchildren, and when they were young they were taught to obey simple commands and requests as part of their socialization. Our children were only given the opportunity to eat and drink according to our scheduling, and certainly were not allowed to urinate anytime and anywhere that they chose during the period of their toilet training. We certainly did not feel that we were engaging in child abuse by utilizing these basic child-rearing practices. To treat a dog in much the same way that we treat our own children, including providing the love and support that they need, does not appear to me to constitute animal abuse, or an argument against the keeping of pets.
  • It seems to me that their actual desire for banning crating is that in so doing they would make keeping dogs in the house more difficult and the housebreaking of puppies less reliable.
  • This advances their anti-pet agenda by taking away some of the pleasure of pet keeping and in that way it would further their programme aimed at denying us the companionship of our dogs and cats.
  • Tying a dog out for a few minutes on a shopping trip does not constitute dog abuse, but legislating against such a common practice could discourage people from having dogs since it would mean they could not take their pets with them when they move around town. This appears to be the kind of thing that PETA really wants to advance— to bring about an end to the keeping of dogs and cats as pets—not the protection of animals.
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Programa Pro - PROGRAMA MUNICIPIO... - 0 views

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    Pepa García: qué malo, qué sorpresa. No existe el rescatista, para empezar, que es quien lleva la carga de cualquier política (necesitan asistencia sanitaria y necesitan hogares temporales, en forma de refugio o red de hogares. Se necesita la promoción del voluntariado a concho: reconocer a los rescatistas y ayudarlos). Chile no es un país ´eutanásico´ por lo que sólo se trata de hacer cumplir la ley donde no se haga (se basan ne este punto en legisñaciones gringa y argentina, dpnde el sacrificio es legal). Se habla en el texto de las 5 libertades, no de los derechos de los animales (las 5 lbertades fueron establecidas por los ganaderos, y eluden el derecho a vivri de los animales). Se anima a la difusión de la declaración de bienestar de la WSPA (la wspa es una seudoprotectora que defiende los intereses de ganaderos y otros cuerpos; que trabaja activamente para evitar que la gente deje de comer animales). La wspa es el mayor enemigo de los animales, al no reconocerles el derecho a vivir...  En los folletos de la wspa sobre gestión de población canina se justifica el sacrificio de perros sanos en refugios. En fin, francamente, muy deficiente.  Les dejo un link por si a alguien le interesa. Están a tiempo de modificar el texto. Yo se lo ruego.  Amistosa y francamente. (luego escribiré en detalle un texto, humildemente y con el ánimo de echar una mano, que les haré llegar). http://wsspa.tumblr.com/
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Childhood pets linked to lower allergy risk | Reuters - 0 views

  • children who were exposed to animals at a young age had lower rates of nasal allergies as adolescents.
  • Growing up with pets has already been linked to a lower risk of other types of allergies.
  • 2010 study from the University of Cincinnati showed than owning a dog may decrease the risk of childhood eczema, a skin condition
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  • 2011 study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit found that growing up with pets cut kids' risk of developing pet allergies by hal
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Derechos Animales - 0 views

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    Página de CDA, con documentos interesantes de teóricos del movimiento animalista, links y otros recursos.
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Facebook | Ayuda para cachorrito atropellado - 0 views

  • Benajmín es un pequeño cachrrrito de aprox 3 meses que fue encontrado la madrugada del sàbado 4 de abril, a las 2.00 a orillas del sanjón de la aguada en el cruce con monseñor carlos casanueva. Sentado, mirando el infinito sin ninguna reacción y snagre en su narzi.
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    [Hay que tener cuenta en Facebook para ingresar al link] [Chile] Benajmín es un pequeño cachrrrito de aprox 3 meses que fue encontrado la madrugada del sàbado 4 de abril, a las 2.00 a orillas del sanjón de la aguada en el cruce con monseñor carlos casanueva. Sentado, mirando el infinito sin ninguna reacción y snagre en su narzi.
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Animals In Our Brain: Mickey Mouse, Teddy Bears, and "Cuteness" | Psychology Today - 0 views

  • "a specific part of your brain that is hardwired to rapidly detect creatures of the nonhuman kind ..
  • (1) the response of cells in the amygdala are independent of the emotional content of the pictures - cute, ugly, and dangerous animals were processed similarly
  • (2) only cells in the right amygdala were responsive to seeing animals.
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  • early on in vertebrate evolution, the right hemisphere became specialized in dealing with unexpected and biologically relevant stimuli, or with changes in the environment.
  • Lorenz called the attractive "cuteness" qualities the baby schema (‘‘Kindchenschema'') that included "a set of infantile physical features, such as round face and big eyes, that is perceived as cute and motivates caretaking behavior in the human
  • perhaps down the road we'll discover differences in how brains process animals when comparing humans who are more or less concerned with the well-being of nonhuman beings.
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While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Domino’s Pizza was hurting early last year.
  • 40 percent more cheese
  • $12 million marketing campaign.
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  • sales soared by double digits.
  • help arrived from an organization called Dairy Management.
  • one slice contains as much as two-thirds of a day’s maximum recommended amount of saturated fat, which has been linked to heart disease and is high in calories.
  • Dairy Management, which has made cheese its cause, is not a private business consultant. It is a marketing creation of the United States Department of Agriculture
  • the same agency at the center of a federal anti-obesity drive that discourages over-consumption of some of the very foods Dairy Management is vigorously promoting.
  • Americans now eat an average of 33 pounds of cheese a year
  • nearly triple the 1970 rate
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