A Week for the Animals
It’s Be Kind to Animals Week, the American Humane Associate had a contest that recognized children who went above and beyond to create a better world for animals.
Don’t Say ‘Meat’; Say ‘Protein’
The $325,000 Burger
Soy – the Good, the Bad and the Poisonous
Blessings Galore at St. John the Divine
GoDaddy CEO Bagged Female, not “Bull”
GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons is still saying that the elephant he shot and killed on a hunting expedition in Africa was a dangerous male “problem elephant.”
Of Rising Temps, Food Prices and Riots
Like never before, the world is one connected whole. Climate change causes crop failures, creating suffering to millions of people. This and lots more from This Week in Green
The Shot Heard Around the World
“I don’t like to admit this,” says editor Michael Mountain, “but Sarah Palin has a point when she defends shooting a caribou during her TV show Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Given the choice, I’d rather get shot in Alaska than live like your average cow in a factory farm.”
How the New British Government Sees Animals
How might a new U.S. Congress that’s looking to cut back on government regulation and pare back spending behave toward animals and the environment? For a possible answer, look at what the new Conservative government in the U.K. has been doing
Who Stops for a Turtle in the Road?
Psychologists say you can learn a lot about human nature by studying how people behave toward other animals. So a group of scientists put a fake turtle and a fake snake on the road and watched to see how drivers reacted.
Animal Antibiotic Alert
Now, after decades of debate, the Food and Drug Administration is poised to stop factory farms from routinely pumping antibiotics into animals. Doctors are worried that this is making us sick and, worse, resistant to antibiotics.