Expect a hundred comments about how climate change is a hoax, reminding us of how much snow fell this month, the non-shrinking glaciers or hacked emails. They will probably be from people who will not even bother reading Al Gore’s long op-ed in the Sunday New York Times. If they did, they would find that he addresses all of these issues. To summarize it, he writes:
If only it were true, it would be a great relief;
The errors in the reports and the emails are embarrassing, but do not change the overall picture;
Global warming puts more moistu…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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No one wants this cow to suffer. Really. Photo: BERTHOLD STADLER/Getty Images
Another day, another example of the amazing psychic abilities of science fiction writer Douglas Adams. This weekend the “New York Times” published an op-ed piece that recommended we genetically manipulate our food livestock to produce animals that don’t mind feeling pain, and consequently don’t suffer.
Yes, a lot like the cow in “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” that walks up to the table and asks Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect which cut of meat they want, and then “nips off to kill herself” with the promise of being “very humane.”
Adam Shriver, the author of the Times op-ed piece, is a doctoral student in the philosophy-neuroscience-psychology program at Washington University. He provides several very logical sounding reasons why it’s a good idea to block or remove an animal’s pain receptors. He even makes it […]
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Filed under: Food, Activism, Plants and WildlifeAs the old saying goes: you win some, you lose some. PETA can definitely chalk up a vict...
Kathy Bates doing some hobbling. Image via AMC Obama’s sweeping ambitions for quelling climate change and creating a clean energy economy have so far remained largely unfulfilled. The New York Times goes so far as to say he’s been ‘hobbled’–his goals metaphorically smashed to pieces by the Senate like James Caan’s legs by a psychotic Kathy Bates in Misery. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Leopard seal…Alicia Silverstone and […]
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Does your home contain contaminated Chinese Drywall? This testing advice from the New York Times can help a homeowner determine if he or she is one of the thousands in over 30 states with the poisonous plasterboard. Some ways to tell if you have Chinese Drywall in your home: - Sulfuric smell. (Also a sign that you have descended into the less-favorable Afterworld. It’s best to inspect for fire, brimstone and the tortured souls of the eternally damned to eliminate this …
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Although we at BobVila.com are probably more likely to encourage homeowners to build and maintain their own chicken coop, I felt a sense of obligation to share with the world the potential pitfalls of such an endeavor. This persuasive piece by a New York Times writer may give some folk second thoughts about raising chickens in their own backyard. It turns out there’s a little more to it besides tossing some feed around every now and then and finding new ways to incorporate the dozens …
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