Related News ItemsConsumer-backed campaigns bring big changes to the food industrySat, 28 Apr 2012 22:09:28 -0700
Consumers hungry for transparency from food companies have struck again.
Read More... Consumer-backed campaigns are bringing big changes to the food industryFri, 27 Apr 2012 10:10:38 -0700
Consumers hungry for transparency from food companies have struck again.
Read More... Consumers win big changes from food industryFri, 27 Apr 2012 05:47:58 -0700
Consumers hungry for transparency from food companies have struck again. Burger King, the world's second-largest fast-food hamburger chain, announced this week that by 2017 all of the eggs and pork the company serves will come from producers who don't confine animals to cages or crates. It's the first major fast-food burger chain to make a 100 percent commitment. The announcement, agriculture ...
Read More... Was Apple protest leader Mark Shields an 'accidental activist?'Thu, 03 May 2012 04:07:33 -0700
More than 250,000 people signed Shields' petition demanding better conditions for workers who assemble iPads. Shields said he fell into the cause accidentally. What he didn't say was that he also does this sort of thing for a living.
Read More... Avatar, Russian Style: Pines & Beatings But No CatgirlsThu, 17 May 2012 00:38:40 -0700
James Cameron invested more than $350 million in a tale of unscrupulous capitalists developing a primeval ecosystem to the chagrin of locals, and grossed $2.7 billion out of it, thrilling half the globe with 2009's Avatar.
Read More... The social history that made Kent State what it is todayMon, 23 Apr 2012 17:52:10 -0700
Students come together to protest against the new credit hour fee outside the library on April 12. Photo by Nancy Urchak. Editor's note: The May 4, 1970 information incorrectly listed 200 protestors at the Commons. There was 2,000-3,000 at the Taylor Hall Hill. The $440-per-credit-hour fee was incorrectly reported as issued April 4. It was issued March 14. The errors occurred in the reporting ...
Read More... Cop Shoots Dog: Untrained Officers Commit 'Puppycide' (PHOTOS)Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:41:11 -0700
Last week, Austin, Texas, Police Chief Art Acevedo publicly apologized to Michael Paxton over the death of his dog Cisco. Paxton was playing fetch with the Australian cattle dog in his backyard when a police officer pulled into the driveway in response to a 911 call. The officer had the wrong house.
Read More... Q&A with West Virginia’s Supreme Court CandidatesFri, 27 Apr 2012 21:13:15 -0700
1 — Is the current makeup of the state Supreme Court one of balance? If so, please say why you feel this way. If not, how can you tilt the scales so that it is balanced?
Read More... Horrors we hideFri, 27 Apr 2012 05:05:55 -0700
Would Americans eat less meat, and would animals be treated more humanely, if slaughterhouses were made with glass walls and we all could see the monstrous killing apparatus at work? This is the query at the heart of Timothy Pachirat's new book, "Every Twelve Seconds" -- the title a reference to the typical slaughterhouse's cattle-killing rate. Before you think this is a column merely about food ...
Read More... Anti-CISPA Petition On Avaaz.org Approaches 800,000 SignaturesWed, 25 Apr 2012 06:46:54 -0700
The petition, launched on April 5 on Avaaz.org, an online platform for civic organization, describes CISPA as a bill "that would give private companies and the U.S. government the right to spy on any of us at any time for as long as they want without a warrant" and calls on members of congress "to show true global leadership and do all you can to protect our Internet freedom."
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