Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 40 Editor's Choice: 4
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The Beef Over Pet Food
[Read the article: The beef over pet food]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We feed our cats Primal cat food, which is basically raw chicken, salmon and beef mixed with small quantities of eggs and vegetables. All the ingredients are organic and raw, ensuring our animals get all the enzymes and vitamins they need. Contrast the food we feed our cats with regular pet food, which is composed of mostly corn and wheat, with small bits of animal fat (sometimes from other dogs or cats) and filler. When was the last time you saw your cat or dog longing for corn-on-the-cob?
So I find today's Salon (subscription required) article talking about the dangers of raw pet food to be absolutely ridiculous and absurd. Animals never cooked their food and they never ate grains, it's not rocket science to figure out that raw pet food makes for a healthier and stronger animal! I've seen the results myself, when feeding my cat grain-based dry food he had rough fur and dandruff, but with raw food all those problems disappeared. My boyfriend's cat weighed 22 pounds when we moved in together and it was still eating a kibble-based diet, I put it on the raw food diet and it lost 11 pounds, stopped puking continually and became much more active.
Food is everything to us because it provides fuel, nutrients and pleasure. We owe it to ourselves and our animals to make sure what we put in our mouths and theirs is the best it can be. While I'm not a raw foodist for humans, I am one for animals. I've seen the results and they speak for themselves.
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More anti-Israel blabber
[Read the article: "We need to talk to them"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At least Salon had the decency to print a disclaimer at the beginning of this article stating that The Council for the National Interest was "highly critical of US policy... in particular... America's unbalanced support of Israel."
When one reads that America's support of Israel is "unbalanced" then you need to wonder why that imbalance exists to begin with. Israel has always been a supportive US ally in the Middle East and is the only functioning democracy in the region. Israel is exactly the kind of nation the US should be supporting more of, and not its enemies in the region, like Syria or Saudi Arabia, both corrupt, hateful dictatorships with populations that loath the United States.
Ambassador Keeley flies to the region and meets with leaders of Hamas who are sworn to the destruction of both Israel and the United States, with the Syrian-installed puppet president of Lebanon and the unelected murderous dictator Bashar Al-Assad, and from this he feels qualified to make judgements concerning he future of the Jewish state?
Ambassador Keeley feels the US should be doing more talking and less saber-rattling, I agree to a point. However his trip was not a fact-finding mission but instead an anti-Israel jaunt where he listened to enemies of Israel confirm his already-formed opinions and judgements.
He may feel more "balance" is needed in US policy and that is certainly his right. But I feel he needs more "balance" in his fact-finding missions, and meeting with Jewish refugees expelled from Arab nations, ordinary Israelis and elected Israeli government officials would go a long way towards showing him the other side of the issues he supposedly cares so much about.
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Serious Accusations
[Read the article: Two parts hubris, one part paranoia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is the writer of the this piece a psychiatrist or psychologist because claiming someone has a myriad of personality disorders, as she claims of Giuliani, is a serious charge. A personality disorder often means someone is dangerously unstable and relentlessly self-obsessed. While Giuliani may be authoritarian to claim he has a serious psychiatric illness is the worst kind of personal attack, a repulsive use of medical terminology to discredit someone the writer disagrees with, not to mention libelous.
This kind of bifurcation and ad-hominem attack piece is highly regrettable. And I live in New York City and am no fan of Giuliani either!
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Thank You Rebecca
[Read the article: So long, Paris]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As one who often sees Paris in various clubs here in New York I've often wondered when the seemingly never-ending fascination with what we refer to as "Skank #1" and her antics was going to cease.
It appears that her evil reign is coming to an end, at least in New York which as we all know is always months ahead of Los Angeles. Paris has now been banned from two of New York's most popular gathering spots and I gather it won't be long until the same thing happens in LA. Once you can't get into clubs where all the press gathers your ill-gotten fame slowly starts declining. I know hers will be complete once she agrees to star on a VH1 reality show, I don't think it will be long until that happens.
I applaud you for this piece. It was well-written without being venomous, truthful without reaching into gossip and extremely hard-hitting. Thank you, thank you THANK YOU!