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nytimes.com - 3/23/2009
Op-Ed Contributor - Cat Got Your Fish?
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MY cat Coco died recently. Actually we euthanized him to alleviate his suffering from cancer. And while this was a sad moment, it was made less sad because Coco’s death also alleviated ever so slightly the suffering of the sea. Coco, like most American cats, ate fish. And a great deal of them — ...
nytimes.com - 3/25/2009
Op-Ed Contributor: Dear A.I.G., I Quit!
— nytimes.com — Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American International Group’s financial products unit, sent this letter... on Tuesday to Edward M. Liddy, the chief executive of A.I.G. (more) Op-Ed Contributor: Dear A.I.G., I Quit!

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TreeHugger:  Green Stories from the New York Times

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Green Stories from the New York Times
TreeHugger — ... feed is a serious problem for the world’s food systems. Around a third of all wild fish caught are “reduced” into fish meal and fish oil. The pet food industry now uses about 10 percent of the global supply of forage fish. The swine industry consumes 24 percent of fish meal and oil — fish oil being considered the best way to wean piglets. Poultry meanwhile takes as much as 22 percent, which means that even when [his cat] Coco ate chicken, indirectly he was still eating fish. more in Cat Got Your Fish? ballenford books toronto Another dead bookstore: ...

Digest: Times et al on food movement’s “arrival,” dairy drama, Murphy profiled
The Ethicurean — Busy days; we’re playing catch-up on news this week. Send URLs we shouldn’t miss to digest@ethicurean.com. The dietgeist “love fest”: Everyone’s talking about Andrew Martin’s sweeping, chockablock New York Times Business section feature on how the food movement finally feels it’s breaking some political ground, thanks to the surprisingly amenable Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and enthusiastic White House gardener-in-chief Michelle Obama. (In case you somehow missed it, she and some photogenic kids broke ground last Friday on an 1,100-square-foot food garden on the South Lawn ...

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