Charity News from Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2003Schools Not Making the Grade on Nutrition Education, Parents SayChildren's Health Fund | At a time when obesity has reached epidemic proportions among Americans, parents believe schools are not making the grade on nutrition education, according to a national Children's Health Fund/Marist Poll conducted between February 11 and 13, 2003. Gene causing cell suicide key in development of skeletal muscle St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered that a protein causing mature cells to commit suicide also helps primitive muscle cells called myoblasts fuse together, allowing them to develop into muscles. The ASPCA and New Jersey Assemblywoman Loretta Weinberg Urge Support of "Veal" Bill American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is urging New Jersey residents to support A.1948, a bill pending in the New Jersey State Assembly that would require the humane treatment of calves raised for "white veal." Cross-Reporting of Child and Animal Abuse a Must American Humane Association | A father becomes angry at the family dog for staying outside the yard. He loads one of his nine guns, then shoots and kills the animal. His children, who witness the violence, begin to sob. The father grabs one child by the hair and slaps another.
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