Brazil’s leading food retailer goes cage-free
This commitment will spare millions of egg-laying hens a life of extreme confinement in battery cages so small that the birds can barely move or stretch their wings.
Calling Covid-19 crisis a ‘wake-up call,’ WHO experts warn next pandemic could be even...
“This pandemic has been very severe... it has affected every corner of this planet. But this is not necessarily the big one.”
‘Millions of lives are at stake’: Pressure grows on Biden to back WTO waiver...
“The world needs 10 to 15 billion doses to reach herd immunity, and right now all of the global production together is on track to make 6 billion doses this year.”
Burning fossil fuels made coronavirus death rate worse, and kills 200K Americans per year,...
Coal companies and Big Oil like ExxonMobil and all those fracking companies are thus killing off a million Americans every five years.
California introduces bill to protect children from ultra-processed food in public schools
Known as Assembly Bill 1264, the bill would create a legal definition of ultra-processed food or UPF in the United States.
A new model for health care respects indigenous agency
In Canada, Inuit and academic health care researchers have teamed up to combat poor cultural awareness in mainstream health care services.
How decades of factory farming paved the way for today’s superbugs crisis
There is a bigger issue here too—one that poses an existential threat to human health. Farms like this are central to the emergence and spread of so-called “superbugs.”
Inequality virus: Pandemic widens wealth gap for women, people of color as billionaire profits...
“In every country that we looked at, inequality has gotten worse during the pandemic.”
Study warns 1.1 million children could die as pandemic interrupts access to food &...
A shocking new report finds the child mortality rate could increase the first time in more than 60 years.
Jimmy Kimmel to Sen. Bill Cassidy: “Stop using my name!”
“Most of the congresspeople who vote on this bill probably won’t even read it.”