DEAR READERS: I hope readers will consider sending a donation to Veterinarians Without Borders International. This highly reputable organization helps animals in parallel with Doctors Without Borders.... more

DEAR READERS: Please see this update of an important document, as summarized by Nature.com: "Six years ago, the Planetary Health Diet (PHD) was proposed to help optimize human health globally and redu... more

DEAR READERS: It is time to adapt, help all in need, and stop burning fossil fuels. According to a 2024 article on LiveScience.com, “Aridity is now impacting 40% of the world’s agricultural land and 2... more

DEAR READERS: So many states are experiencing their warmest falls ever recorded. The cause is the extreme warming of the North Pacific Ocean, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administ... more

DEAR READERS: President Trump’s so-called “war on woke” includes countless attacks on science. Soon, environmentalists and conservationists protesting the expansion of coal mining may be branded as do... more

DEAR DR. FOX: Your column entitled “Safety, Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccinations” was well balanced, but it gave too much weight to the Joseph Fraiman et al. article published in Vaccine in 2022.... more

DEAR READERS: Regarding the recent news about Tylenol, please see the following write-up from Nature.com, posted Sept. 23:... more

DEAR DR. FOX: I have been reading and enjoying your column for several years, and have read some of your books. How do you deal with all the bad news about what is happening to wildlife and the enviro... more

DEAR READERS: I encourage those who have not seen the 1992 documentary "From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning" to do so. Here is a description from FilmsForAction.org:... more

DEAR READERS: The veterinary profession, for better and for worse, has served the interests of society and the economy for generations as part of the cultural separation of humanity from animality. I ... more

DEAR READERS: Here is an excerpt from the 2025 Policy Book of the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association (uscattlemen.org):... more

DEAR DR. FOX: I appreciate your postings about the risks of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, and you make it quite clear you are not an anti-vaxxer.... more

DEAR DR. FOX: Your post on mRNA vaccines, like Pfizer’s and Moderna’s that saved lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, failed to acknowledge the benefits over the risks. I know you are not against tried... more