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The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on聽bangordailynewsAnne Perry of Calais represents District 140 in the Maine House of Representatives. A retired family nurse practitioner, she serves on the Health and Human Services Committee.When it comes to addressing drug use in our communities, the criminal justice system cant force someone into long-term recovery. In fact, the evidence shows聽that arrest and jail or prison are detrimental to peoples chances of survival and recovery. Thankfully, last spring, Maine made immense progress in moving toward drug policy that is evidence-based, humane and just. A bill I sponsored to end criminal penalties for drug possession and offer people a pathway to yeezy mexico recovery, LD 967, passed in the Maine House adidas campus 00s of Representatives. It had overwhelming public supportfrom medical professionals, people in recovery, their family members and in the press.LD 967 was modeled on Oregons Measure 110ballot initiative, passed in November 2020, which ended criminal penalties for drug possession and dramatically increased funding for treatment. Thanks to Measure 110, adidas samba og Oregonians have the option of paying a $100 fine or undergoing a health assessment if police issue a citation for drug possession. Measure 110 also invests marijuana tax revenues and the savings from the criminal justice system into treatment and other recovery services. Early results from Rupv What s changing on the mudflats the focus of second Maine s shellfish fisheries webinar, radio program
In Americas food-obsessed landscape, the quickest route to a new idea is to look for something already being done and then make it vegan.Wild Earth Inc., a startup based in Berkeley, California, is doing that to pet food with lab-created proteins. Translated, that means fake meat for Fido.The stakes are far from small potatoes. Sixty-eight percent of Americans own four-legged friends, a paw-dropping 184 million dogs and cats to be precise. To feed this mass of tail-wagging companions, we spend almost $30 billion annually. Pet food-predominantly animal-meat products-represents as much as 30 percent of all meat consumption in America.According to a first-of-its-kind owala water bottle study on how that sweet blond lab on your kitchen floor impacts the environment, UCLA professor Gregory Okin owala writes that if American pets were to establish a sovereign nation, it would rank fifth in global meat consumption. This nation of pooches and kitties consumes about 19 percent as many calories as humans, but because their diets are higher in protein, their total animal-derived calorie intake amounts to about 33 percent that of humans. If youre feeding your large dog the same as you, your dog is eating more meat yeezy usa than you are, said Dr. Cailin Heinze, a Tufts faculty member and board-certified veterinary nutritionist.Food consumption by dogs and cats is responsible for releasing up to 64 million tons of greenhouse gases every year. Developing fake meat for pets may help put a dent in that, as well as the use of |
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