Intelligence is a topic to visit with care, and one that’s not easy to define. Writing in Psychology Today, Dr. Neel Burton has explained that intelligence covers all the ways in which we adapt and respond to the environment around us.…
It’s no secret that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are driving global warming. What's less talked about is the direct impact that these emissions have on earth’s ocean.…
A patient’s organs start shutting down at the hospital. She’s confused and has a fever. Eventually, she’s intubated because her body cannot breathe on its own.…
The ocean might be the last thing on your mind when eating a hamburger or chicken nugget, but what we eat is more closely connected to the health of our oceans than many people realize.…
If we believed the packaging we see on egg cartons at the grocery store we would think that the hens who lay our eggs live idyllic lives wandering around green fields and preening their full brown feathers in the sunshine.…
“Free-range chicken” is a marketing term used by the food industry. It is meant to appleal to consumers who care about the conditions in which farmed animals were raised.…
You’ve most likely heard by now that we’re living in a climate emergency. While none of us can know for sure what the world will look like in 10, 20, or 50 years, we’re heading for disaster if our current emissions of greenhouse gasses go unchecked, and a large quantity of those emissions are caused by the systems we use to produce our food. …
If the United States had a vanity license plate, it could easily be, “CORN FED.” Corn is in pretty much every aisle of your nearest grocery store.…
The idea that fish are merely a resource or material for us to make use of couldn’t be further from the truth.…
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Industrial animal agriculture–raising food for meat and dairy products–is the leading driver of habitat loss in the Amazon and a major contributor to climate change and biodiversity loss globally. This jaguar Amanaci received support after suffering burns from a fire in her habitat, but not all jaguars are so lucky. Will you help end the destructive practices of factory farming and the suffering it brings to wild and farmed animals today?
