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.


Private corporations offer cash in exchange for state prisons & the guarantee they'll be kept 90% full (via Huffington Post) (2/14/12)

School uses real world as teaching tool (via NY Times) (2/14/12)

Will our addiction to gadgets give Malaysians cancer? (via Mother Jones) (2/13/12)

McDonald's agrees to help end use of pig gestation crates (via NY Times) (2/13/12)

China factories making Apple products open to outside inspections (via USA Today) (2/13/12)

"Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning in France" (via Reuters) (2/13/12)

Study reveals depictions of nature in children's books "down by half since 1960" (via Treehugger) (2/11/12)

"Even critics of safety net increasingly depend on it" (via NY Times) (2/11/12)

"Behind the big drop in euthanasia for America's dogs and cats" (via Christian Science Monitor) (2/10/12)

Judge rules orcas cannot be considered slaves (via Treehugger) (2/9/12)

Grand Canyon park to ban bottled water sales (via Reuters) (2/8/12)

Whales stressed out by underwater noise (via ABC News) (2/8/12)


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