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Optima Pet Food Saga: Media’s double-edged sword

It’s been a crazy week - both with trying to catch up on work I let slip while caring for Addie over the holidays and also with trying to bring some perspective to this whole, ongoing, experience. When all this began… ...full story at Humanaught

from Humanaught on Sat, Jan 17 2009

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