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Public Health and Agriculture: An Ongoing Debate
For 2 1/2 years, a highly diverse group of experts from the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (PCIFAP) (a project from the Pew Charitable Trusts and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) studied the practices of industria...
Obama’s mutt
Everyone took notice when Barack Obama uttered his now famous words, “Shelter dogs tend to be mutts, like me…” It was a startling moment for many reasons. Had we ever heard a president-elect speak so self-deprecatingly? Had someone ...
Obama’s Puppy: Big News
During Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday night, he promised his daughters, Sasha and Malia, that they would be moving to the White House with a well-deserved new puppy. Those of us who follow the role of animals in popular culture took notice of...
President Barack Obama
On my way to work on the morning after our country elected Barack Obama as President, the bus was eerily quiet. I sat among fellow commuters in silence. The usual cell phone conversations and loud chats about work, the tired early morning laughter...
