DEAR READERS: Physicians, nutritionists and chefs need to wise up and stop promoting salmon as a “health food.” The "mass suffering" on Scottish salmon farms, as reported by Josh Loeb in the British V... more

DEAR DR. FOX: Why are captive hunting facilities or shooting preserves still allowed? In today’s paper, there was an article about a rancher who cloned giant sheep for shooting preserves. (He was fine... more

DEAR READERS: With the precipitous global decline in wildlife and biodiversity, the hearts of some are hardening with indifference, while others are breaking. The plights of political, economic and en... more

DEAR READERS: This is another excerpt from my work-in-progress book, “PAN: People, Animals and Nature -- Restoring Our Sacred Connections.”... more

DEAR READERS: Along with people and their companion animals, farmed animals also suffer during extreme weather events. In the national media coverage of the recent catastrophic storms and floods that ... more

DEAR READERS: Researchers estimate that more than 2,000 different species of animals are killed and eaten by free-roaming domestic cats around the world, posing a serious risk to biodiversity. Cats ha... more

DEAR READERS: There are principles and values from native and Indigenous peoples all over the world that we would all do well to embody and emulate. For instance, the Hopi term Lomakatsi, or "life in ... more

DEAR READERS: In a new study, glyphosate -- the main ingredient in Roundup -- caused severe damage to rats' gut function. Per the study's abstract, this gut damage was "characterized by gut microbial ... more

DEAR READERS: Below is part of an interview with Hao Yu, a postdoctoral student at the University of Bern, that appeared on Science.org in September. It contains fascinating information about emerging... more

DEAR READERS: The excellent reporting by Hiroko Tabuchi in the Aug. 31 New York Times documents the poisoning of farmland, crops and farmed animals with several PFAS -- aka forever chemicals -- along ... more

DEAR READERS: I want to share with you some of my reflective writings on the subject of restoring our sacred connections to nature -- the topic of my next book. I will include excerpts in upcoming col... more

DEAR DR. FOX: Please advise if a 6-year-old male German shepherd and a 4-year-old female Weimaraner can eat fresh blueberries and/or strawberries. -- N.R. and C.R., Naples, Florida... more

DEAR READERS: Keeping wild animals inhumanely in cages and raising them for their fur and/or for medicinal products needs to be prohibited. Not only is it cruel, but these animals act as "potential re... more