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Crystal Heath

(She/Her)
Berkeley, Los Angeles
As seen in: TIME, Yahoo News, Future Perfect, Flipboard, The Mercury News, Yahoo, The Salt Lake Tribune, Modern Farmer, EIN News, East Bay Times and
Covers:  animal stories, factory farming, environmental, horse racing, social justice, law, legislation, civil disobedience, racial justice, workers rights, dogs, cats, pigs, birds, pandemics, avian influenza
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Crystal Heath’s Biography

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Graduate of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and practicing shelter and general practice veterinarian. B.S. degree in Animal Science from UC Davis.

Founder of Our Honor, a non-profit organization that empowers animal professionals to speak their conscience and encourage education, government and corporations to work for the best interest of others no matter their species.

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Cat Declaw Bans Help Both Cats and Veterinarians

Cat Declaw Bans Help Both Cats and Veterinarians

"Furthermore, continued legal declawing for non-therapeutic reasons pressures veterinarians to perform these …

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Crystal Heath: Smithfield has stranglehold on Utah and Beaver County

Crystal Heath: Smithfield has stranglehold on Utah and Beaver County

A St. George police officer caught my attention and asked, “How have we been treating you?” It was a sunny Oc…

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The real cost of eggs is greater than you think | Opinion - Pennsylvania Capital-Star

The real cost of eggs is greater than you think | Opinion - Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was recently detected in yet another Pennsylvania flock, creating ma…

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Letter: Discussions of water conservation must include the dairy industry

Letter: Discussions of water conservation must include the dairy industry

As a veterinarian, I read with great interest the recent editoria l, "Why it's time for Utah to buy out alfal…

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Opinion: Rodeo industry cannot be trusted to practice compassion

Opinion: Rodeo industry cannot be trusted to practice compassion

When I was a kid, every year my family would attend the Rowell Ranch Rodeo in Alameda County and the Grand Na…

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Livestock, poultry operations create pandemic fears. Bill to suspend growth proposed

Livestock, poultry operations create pandemic fears. Bill to suspend growth proposed

Anyone who has driven down I-5 through Coalinga has been punched in the nose by the reality of large scale an…

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Veterinarians and Veterinary Students for Animals, Public Health, and Professional Integrity: Scholarship Contest

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By Crystal Heath
| ourhonor.org
Veterinary medicine requires courage. It takes courage to learn difficult skills. It takes courage to be responsible for life-and-death decisions. It takes courage to tell the truth when our patients’ lives are at risk, and our careers are on the line. It takes courage to speak up when a system is failing and when powerful institutions ask us to accept practices we know are wrong. Medicine has a long history of placing professionals in morally vulnerable positions.
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Veterinarians For An Egg Free Future

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By Crystal Heath
| ourhonor.org
Why veterinarians are calling for corporate egg-free commitments Download free flyers for your clinic here Download the social media graphic Veterinarians are trained to evaluate how disease spreads, how food is produced, how environmental contamination accumulates, and how these factors ultimately affect human health.
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Keep the “Save Our Bacon” Act Out of the Farm Bill

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By Crystal Heath
| ourhonor.org
Dear [Senator] [Last Name], The Senate Agriculture Committee held a closed-door, bipartisan, members-only meeting on the Farm Bill. Chairman John Boozman, Republican of Arkansas, reportedly told committee members that he does not plan to include the Save Our Bacon Act in the Senate’s starting draft. We need to keep it that way. Senators on the Agriculture Committee may still try to add it back in through an amendment. Please don’t let this happen.
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