Just days after McDonald’s corporation said it will shift to using cage-free eggs over the next decade, investors have started pressuring the fast-food chain to remove antibiotics from all of its meat.
Leak shows White House working with tech corps to break encryption; World misleaders converge on NYC for UN General Assembly; Good News Next Week with the 'Library of Things'.
The inner essence of fascism and totalitarianism, of atrocity, lies not in ideology as such, but in willed actions whose purpose is to show that there are no limits to what can be done to the individual, or even to entire classes of individuals.
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She said that “persons” are not restricted to human beings...The parameters of legal personhood have long been and will continue to be discussed and debated by legal theorists, commentators, and courts,” she wrote, ”and will not be focused on semantics or biology, or even philosophy, but on the proper allocation of rights under the law.”
Media Monarchy missed July but joins Jack Blood for an awesome August visit to talk about Cecil & Sanger's Super-Friends, Papal Porn,
Activists who try to film animal abuse on Big Ag farms often face a fine of up to $5000 for whistleblowing on the industry. But just a few short weeks ago, a federal judge ruled that Idaho’s controversial ‘ag gag’ law was unconstitutional, and said that criminalizing undercover documentation violates both free speech and the equal protection clauses of the constitution.
After more than 56,000 people signed a petition presented by Change.org and other animal rights activists put some additional pressure on the large US restaurant chain, the Cheesecake Factory has committed to using only cage free eggs at their dining establishments.
Only in the insanity of corporate America can nonviolent animal rights activists be charged as terrorists while a white supremacist who gunned down African-Americans in a South Carolina church is charged on criminal counts. Only in the insanity of America can Wall Street financers implode the global economy through massive acts of fraud, causing widespread suffering, and be rewarded with trillions of dollars in government bailouts.
Sickening, hidden camera recordings at a factory farm run by leading chicken-producer Tyson Foods reveals shocking animal abuse. This video is shocking, disgusting, and sad, so if prepare yourself for what is about to come.
In the video above, you can see how thousands of chicks are stuffed inside a windowless warehouse, where there is no sun or fresh air. They are thrown and tossed around to the point of pain and injury, all while having barely enough room to move in tightly enclosed spaces.
I saw the flicker, the glimmering haze shooting and then hitting the jeep broken, illuminating a strong beam that lit the hill opposite. It was a few minutes after the sunset, almost dark at that late summer day. I knew …
