Why not in Pennsylvania?
The insurance companies are in the business to make a profit and they certainly must over the whole state, but there is no need to make a profit in each and every neighborhood.
Punish people who are guilty of insurance fraud and also those who discriminate against people because of where they live.
Lawrence Morgan
Philadelphia
TAINTED MILK IS NO SURPRISE
I was not surprised to read about the contamination of retail milk supplies with antibiotics and sulfa drugs.
This is another instance of how ineffective, dangerous and costly factory farming in the dairy and livestock industry has become.
Animals taken from their natural environment and placed into crowded factory confinement systems are pushed to production levels way beyond their physiological means. This causes numerous health problems (stress), which slow down production and bring down profits.
Our dairy and meat industries turn to the chemical and pharmaceutical companies for "remedies" to these "problems." Antibiotics, antibacterial agents and hormones are routinely injected into the animals or added to the feed to increase the animals' growth and production at abnormal speed. Pesticides are sprayed within the factory surroundings to keep down parasites that bred from overcrowded factory conditions. Thousands of these drugs and chemicals have been approved by government agencies and are on the market today. Many leave dangerous residues in dairy and meat products; some are known to be carcinogenic.
Consumers must educate themselves to these hazards and demand a change to the inhumane and unsafe methods of factory farming today.
Stewart Gavin
Collingswood
ESCHEW ACCUSATIONS
It was with shared sympathy and outrage that I began to read the Jan. 8 article concerning the Camden County prosecutor's hoax and subsequent use of black stereotypes.
