Humane Issues in the News

Each week we post links to news about humane education & humane living, and items connected to humane issues, from human rights to environmental preservation, to animal protection, to media, consumerism and culture.


Biologist takes on sex-changing herbicide (via Mother Jones) (Jan/Feb 2012)

Students raise awareness about plastic pollution (via WCFCourier) (2/5/12)

"Greece bans animal circuses" (via One Green Planet) (2/5/12)

"After recess: change the world" (via NY Times) (2/4/12)

"One town's war on gay teens" (via Rolling Stone) (2/4/12)

Student suspended for speaking in her Native language (via Native News Network) (2/3/12)

The rocky relationship between the Sierra Club and the natural gas industry (via Time) (2/2/12)

Are bear prisoners of bile farms committing suicide? (via MNN) (2/2/12)

New research finds kids & teens exposed to character education  volunteer more (via Sacramento Bee) (2/1/12)

New zoo accreditation standard will require 3 elephants (via Scientific American) (2/1/12)

Report says pesticide cause of major bee deaths (via Common Dreams) (1/30/12)

80% of chicken growers reportedly never sanitize crates (via MNN) (1/30/12)

"Blacks face bias in bankruptcy, study suggests" (via NY Times) (1/20/12) 


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