In another 40 years, demographers tell us, there will be 2.5 billion more people. A new UN report says that by then we shall need to double food production in order to feed the planet. When a similar issue arose some fifty years ago, the Green Revolution increased food production. But it came at the…

Florida, Colorado and Arizona are proposing an online registry for animal abusers and the director of legislative affairs for The Animal Legal Defense Fund expect similar proposals in several other states. Suffolk County on Long Island created a registry in 2010 which is only now about to go up and other New York counties have…

The Auschwitz Memorial Museum has just published sketches which were done by a prisoner at the Birkenau extermination camp somewhere around 1943-44. The sketches are very precise including the badge number of guards or numbered plates of trucks. The scenes they depict are heart wrenching like children being separated from their parents, guards smoking near…