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it’s like there’s a hello kitty god reminding me to not fuck my car up.

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Fed up with her attempts to adopt, the author decided to buy a puppy instead
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“Groups like these have high standards for who gets to adopt. Applicants are sometimes subjected to an interrogation that would befit Michael Vick. After receiving this hostile treatment, several would-be pet owners told me, they got offended and gave up.”

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No Pet For You

Slate Magazine

People who rescue animals can be reluctant to believe anyone deserves the furry creatures. Some rescue groups think potential owners shouldn’t have full-time jobs. Others reject families with children. Some rescuers think apartment dwelling is OK for humans but not for dogs, or object to a cat’s litter box being placed in a basement. Some say no to people who would let a dog run around the fenced backyard “unsupervised,” or allow a cat outside, ever.

It used to be that people who wanted to get an abandoned or abused animal went to the local pound, saw one they liked, paid a small fee, and drove home with a new pet. Since the 1990s, however, the movement to reduce animal euthanasia and the arrival of the Internet have given rise to a new breed of rescuer. These are private groups, or even individuals, who create networks of volunteers to care for needy animals.

Before this, enormous numbers of animals who went into shelters never came out. More than 40 years ago, an average of 20 million dogs and cats were euthanized annually…Humane organizations started a campaign to spay and neuter pets, especially those coming through shelters, and today fewer than four million dogs and cats are euthanized yearly—still terrible, but a vast improvement. In addition to pet sterilization, an effort also began to find accommodations for homeless animals outside the municipal and private shelter systems, which have limited room and often short deadlines for keeping animals before moving them to death row. The new organizations take potentially adoptable pets out of the shelters and foster them, usually in private homes, until the right owner comes along. They control the fate of an increasing number of animals…

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FOOD—ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICALS:   NEW REPORT EXAMINES the U.S. GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE to ACT on PROTECTING CONSUMERS from BPA

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“Recent studies point to BPA’s ability to interfere with the body’s hormone system, potentially leading to a variety of health problems, including damage to the reproductive system and the brain,[weight gain/obesity, and more*]…”

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Federal regulators have failed to act on toxic chemical, report says

Federal regulators have done little to protect the public, according to a new report from a nonprofit research group.

The agencies’ plodding action on Bisphenol-A, known as BPA, despite a stream of research pointing to serious risks, doesn’t bode well for attempts to address related chemicals that may pose similar dangers but haven’t been studied as much, the report’s lead author said.

The Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are conducting research on BPA. The EPA is also in the process of proposing a rule to require further testing and is considering listing BPA among other “chemicals of concern.”

These efforts, however, have been “meager,” and the agencies have authority to do much more, the report says.

The FDA, for example, could ban BPA in all products that come in contact with food. The EPA could require warning labels and ban certain uses of the chemical. And the Occupational Safety and Health Administration could set and enforce limits on how much BPA workers can breathe.

Many of these steps would take time and likely face heavy resistance from companies that use the chemical. But there are steps the agencies should take now, the report says.

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*For more information on the adverse health effects linked with BPA, see the scientific findings report on the ChemicalFreeLife.tumblr.com front page:

http://chemicalfreelife.tumblr.com/syntheticfoodchemicalresearch

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firepaw:

Fukushima pets in no-go zone face harsh winter weather
Dogs and cats that were abandoned last year have had to survive radiation and a lack of food, and they are now struggling with freezing winter weather. The government let animal welfare groups enter the evacuation zone temporarily in December to rescue surviving pets before the severe winter weather set in, but there are still many dogs and cats left in the area.a

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