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From pets to protein, humanity's treatment of animals is fraught with contradiction.

Reasons i favor abolishing the filibuster. i think that our job is to get things done, and that includes looking at what happened at the insurrection, when a mob invaded our capital and kill people. i also believe that we need to convince our ranks that this is the time to do it. we have another big hurdle coming up, that is so important for the democracy. which is the next steps. that is voting rights. you not only see refusal to see what happened on january six, you also see efforts to literally stop people from exercising their freedom to vote. and that is what we are in the middle of discu...

4 More States Propose Harsh New Penalties For Protesting Fossil Fuels Industry-designed bills to silence climate protests are under consideration in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota and Montana. More are likely to come. By Alexander C. Kaufman Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images A Native American environmental activist dances with an eagle feather in front of the construction site for Enbridge's Line 3 oil pipeline near Palisade, Minnesota on January 9, 2021. Dawn Goodwin spent her 50th birthday among towering pines and yellow birches whose tree rings make her lifespan seem like a child’s in comparison...

Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time Numbered footnotes, with hyperlinks, appear at the end of this article. My attitude toward becoming a vegan was similar to Augustine’s attitude toward becoming celibate — “God grant me abstinence, but not yet.” But with animal agriculture as the leading cause of species extinction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and habitat destruction 2, and with the death spiral of the ecosystem ever more pronounced, becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. It is one that my...