However, contrary to their claims, drinking cow's milk is one of the least effective ways to strengthen bones. ... Let's also stop and question the practice of drinking cow's milk altogether. ... We are the only species that drinks milk beyond infancy, which might help to explain why most people over the age of 4 develop the inability to digest the carbohydrate lactose found in milk. ... Inhumane Treatment of Animals 1. ... We do not need to eat meat, drink cow's or goat's milk, or eat eggs to live. ...

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"Should the legal drinking age be lowered in the United States?" The National Minimum Drinking Act of 1984 helped nationalize the legal drinking age of 21. ... Drinking alcohol is not included in this list of adult privileges. ... Death is the extremity to our existence, it's what every living being, animal, and cell try to avoid, it's innate. ... Providing a suitable environment also helps promote better drinking habits by limiting one's ability to binge drink. ...

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If we ate fish or another animal that had been harmed by water pollution, there is a chance that we could also be harmed by whatever was left in the animal. Contaminated water not only impacts wildlife and environments, but can also affect our drinking water. ... Humans are especially affected by unclean water because whereas animals such as fish, birds, and reptiles are able to drink pond or sea water, there is only one percent of fresh water that is safe for us to consume. ... We as humans can be harmed severely by water pollution because we can easily get diseases from pollutants in the wat...

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Parents and peers have a large impact on youths decisions to drink, but marketing also has a great impact by influencing the attitudes of children and their peers, as well as helping to create an environment that promotes underage drinking. ... In 1984 the drinking age changed from eighteen to twenty-one. ... Research shows, "A study on the responses of young people to alcohol advertising found that underage youth are drawn to music, animal and people characters, story and humor in alcohol advertising. ... The three most popular alcohol ads among youth in the study used animal characters...

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Many animals on the farm, Old Major and Squealor to be specific, used speech and language to gain power over other animals. ... All animals are comrades", he strongly repeated. ... Squealor happily defends himself and his fellow pigs when they are caught stealing milk and selfishly drinking it themselves. ... Not only did Squealor prove to the animals that they had a purpose for drinking the milk and they didn't steal it, but he actually was a strong enough speaker to flip around the whole situation and make the other animals seem like the bad guys for even accusing the pigs of doing suc...

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History How would you feel if when you went to school each day you were settling for less because you didn't have a choice, or when you wanted to get a drink of water you had to find a special lower quality fountain because you weren't good enough to use the normal nice fountains that the whites got to use. ... One of those ways though, was through drinking fountains. ... The white people surely did not want to share a drinking fountain with these animals. The drinking fountains were just the spout of the segregation problems. One of the most common places to find a drinking fo...

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Many food borne organisms are present in healthy animals raised for food. ... Fresh fruits and vegetables can also become contaminated if they are washed with water that is contaminated with animal manure or human sewage. ... Drink only pasteurized milk and juices and treated surface water. Wash hands carefully after using the bathroom, changing infant diapers, or cleaning up animal feces. ...

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Global warming will effect weather everywhere, plants and animals everywhere and people everywhere. ... Salt water will pollute freshwater wells that millions of people use for drinking water. ... Conservation will also be important for drinking water supplies. ...

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Of course, we need food, shelter, water and so on, but so do wild animals. ... A religion is a cornerstone for spirituality which helps us to develop a grasp of moral characters and ethics that animals do not have. ... For instance, I have friends who believe in different religions, and they don't get in trouble that much because their religions tell them not to drink alcohol and act violently. ...

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She had a drinking problem, and had been in the court a couple of times, and one day, the shack caught fire, and neither Piquette or the children got out. ... The small pier her father built was replaced with a bigger pier built by the government, and the loons and wild animals were gone. ... Her drinking problem is obviously because she is unhappy. ... She started to drink of the same reason as almost everybody else, she wanted to drown her sorrow. ...

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In the 1600s, the Europeans and early English used Africans as slaves and treated them as if they were animals. "Colored" people were not even allowed to use the same drinking fountains as white people until the mid-1900s. ...

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Rather, you are treated as if you are less; you are treated like an animal. ... They would deduct money if they break a branch, buy medicine from the stores in the "fincas" (because they were owned by the same land owners), or by drinking at the bars in the "fincas." ... I believe that the biggest driving force behind Rigoberta, fighting so hard to get civil rights for the indios, was because she hated the fact that indios were treated like animals, and she was out to show that even though indios didn't have a book education, they had a survival education which was very important. ...

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This can be harmful to the animals that may drink this groundwater supply, and to us if these chemicals manage to infect the groundwater within a major aquifer. ... This negatively impacts the animals that previously inhabited these frozen land masses by taking away their homes and the very ground that they walk on; the melted remnants of these ice caps also add water to the ocean, thus increasing global sea levels. ...

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Native Americans believed everything in their world was beautiful and sacred whether it was the ground or the animals that walked upon it. ... , and "Drink my blood!". ... Animals, objects, and humans are believed to have a personal spirit or personality. ... Animal tricksters include hare, raven and coyote. ...

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They also include the air we breathe and the water we drink. ... Most past climate changes occurred slowly, allowing plants and animals to adapt to the new environment or move somewhere else. However, if future climate changes occur as rapidly as scientists predict, plants and animals may not be able to react quickly enough to survive. ... Coastal flooding could cause saltwater to flow into areas where salt is harmful, threatening plants and animals in those areas. ... Coastal flooding also may reduce the quality of drinking water in coastal areas. ...

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Parents tend to feel that "since we created them, they have to do whatever we want" and that just isn't right, we are not property, we are complex animals that are curious about life and our own bodies. ... Secondly, my mom is crazy, she thinks that I"m going to go out and do drugs and drink booze. ...

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The EPA should also hire geologists to survey potential aquifer recharge areas and use zoning laws to prohibit them from being used for anything but state parks and animal refugees. ... By making people aware of where their water comes from and what they are drinking through advertising will the environment be supported. ...

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Columbus introduced sugarcane to the islands and with the sugarcane the natives on the islands discovered that with the juices from the cane they could make rum with the fermented sugarcane juice and since that time rum has been the drink in the islands. ... The native Indians made a lot of stews out of goats which was the main animal on the islands before the exploration age started and vegetables like tomatoes which was one of the main vegetables on the land. ...

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Compost consists of vegetable kitchen scraps and animal manure. ... "Without grassroots political action by millions of citizens and organized groups, the air we breathe, and the water we drink would be much more polluted and more of earth's bio-diversity would be gone" (Miller, 1999 p.211). ...

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Should Marijuana be legal in the United States? Marijuana is by far the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States and in most other countries as well. More than seventy million Americans have tried marijuana, and more than twenty million have smoked it in the last year, but does marij...

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The Declaration of Independence of the United States states " We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain enaliable rights, that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." So why then are people of a di...

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One out of every four human beings has no access to safe drinking water. ... I find this very disrespectful to the people who are really starving, they shouldn't be shown like animals on a tv screen, they should be given dignity. ...

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Being physically active is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Individuals who participate in moderate or vigorous intensity physical activity can reduce their risk for disease and premature death (USDHHS, 1996). Physical activity has been shown to have the following health benefits: Reduces the risk of dying prematurely. Reduces the risk of heart disease. Reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. ...

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