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Source: PETA

 

Outspoken rocker and animal rights activist Pink has long shunned fur and often opts for alternatives to leather. Now, she has joined PETA's campaign to expose the horrendous, hidden cruelty in the wool industry. Currently performing to rave reviews all over Europe and gearing up for her upcoming tour with Justin Timberlake, Pink took time out of her busy schedule to narrate our video exposing the bizarre cruelty behind Australia’s massive merino sheep trade.

 

Wrtten By: Susan Levin, M.S., R.D. 

Source: This letter was published in the January 2007 edition of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association

 

To the Editor:

In their review, “Is Calcium and Vitamin D Supplementation Overrated?,” Lee and Majka ask a critically important question. However, their answer ignored key scientific evidence (1). Their recommendation to consume three 8-oz glasses of vitamin D–fortified milk per day to meet the minimum requirements for calcium and vitamin D is especially problematic, since most research shows that dairy products are not beneficial to bone health.

The Nurses’ Health Study (2), which followed more than 75,000 women for 18 years, showed no protective effect of increased milk consumption on fracture risk. Similarly, a 1994 study of elderly men and women in Sydney, Australia, showed that higher dairy product consumption was associated with increased fracture risk. Those with the highest dairy product consumption had approximately double the risk of hip fracture compared with those with the lowest consumption (3).

 

Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Department of Health and Human Services

 

The low levels of exposure to sodium pentobarbital (pentobarbital) that dogs might receive through food is unlikely to cause them any adverse health effects, Food and Drug Administration scientists concluded after conducting a risk assessment.

During the 1990s, FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) received reports from veterinarians that pentobarbital, an anesthetizing agent used for dogs and other animals, seemed to be losing its effectiveness in dogs.  Based on these reports, CVM officials decided to investigate a plausible theory that the dogs were exposed to pentobarbital through dog food, and that this exposure was making them less responsive to pentobarbital when it was used as a drug.

The investigation consisted of two parts.  First, CVM had to determine if dog food could contain residues of the drug.  Second, if residues were found, the Center had to determine what risk, if any, the residues posed to dogs.

In conjunction with this investigation, the Center wanted to determine if pet food contained rendered remains of dogs and cats.