A More Meaningful Mother’s Day Gift

A More Meaningful Mother’s Day Gift

| May 7, 2012 | Environment / HealthAmericans love Mother’s Day. We love it so much that we’re collectively shelling out about $19 billion this year on gifts, special meals, and cards. But when it comes to educating our kids about how most women become mothers, we’re much less...
Vegan Confessions

Vegan Confessions

| | Food / FarmingIf you invented a pill that offers long life, good health, and a body to be proud of, you’d make a fortune. Bottles would fly off the shelves. Suggest a change in behavior that achieved the same result, however, and what do you get? Catcalls, derisive comments,...
Let’s Protect Children, Not Guns

Let’s Protect Children, Not Guns

| Apr 16, 2012 | Peace / SecurityThe Children’s Defense Fund dedicated our report Protect Children, Not Guns 2012 to the memory of Trayvon Martin and the thousands of other children and teenagers killed by guns in America. Guns killed a total of 5,740 kids in 2008 and 2009, according to the...
Congress Opts to Keep Poisoning Children

Congress Opts to Keep Poisoning Children

| Apr 2, 2012 | Environment / HealthYes, we certainly need to cut unnecessary and frivolous federal spending, because…well, because it’s unnecessary and frivolous. So Congress has targeted unnecessary oil subsidies and frivolous tax giveaways to billionaires, right? Uh…no. Instead,...