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The New Jersey office where I work will likely be under water in less than twenty years. When I mentioned this to a coworker, she just smiled and walked away. "Long-term disaster is now the best case scenario" wrote Nathaniel Rich in "Losing Earth: The D…

Presidents tend to have a love-hate relationship when it comes to the press. After becoming President, Donald Trump declared that the media is the "enemy of the American people!" In reply, Presidential historian Michael Beschloss noted that Richard Nixon secr…

Leaving for work one morning, I noticed a solitary Crane fly in the corner of a hall window in my apartment building. He was so still that I feared he might be dead. Upon closer inspection, he moved his long legs and crawled up the glass, frantically trying to get out.…

For some twenty years I have been a proud Rutgers University alumna, but having recently discovered that the State University of New Jersey has been clandestinely participating in animal experiments for many years, I can no longer stand behind my alma mater. In a Buzzf…

Addictions come in many different forms. Some people are addicted to substances like caffeine, drugs, and alcohol, while others are hooked on activities like buying and collecting stuff or watching porn. There are sexaholics, chocoholics, shopaholics, and workaholics. …

The environmental movement reached a crescendo in September with the People’s Climate March. During this time the actor Leonardo DiCaprio, recently appointed United Nations Messenger of Peace, delivered an urgent plea to the Assembly and its members to scale back the …

If you've been paying any attention to the news lately, then you're probably aware that humans are losing the war against global warming, a war that we undoubtedly started. Fires, heatwaves, floods, droughts, mudslides and "super storms" are now commo…

I often hear myself saying that just because technology can make some things possible doesn’t mean it should. Atomic bombs, sperm banks, and cloning immediately come to mind. Technology now dominates most of our lives and food is no exception. The human population, whi…

World Week for Animals in Laboratories (April 20 – 28) spotlights the millions of animals who needlessly suffer and die each year in research and testing. This is an important time to address the myth that animal experiments are a "necessary evil," essential…

Founded in 1895, NEAVS, the New England Anti-Vivisection Society , one of the most respected national organizations working on behalf of animals in labs, recently announced the launch of their new interactive website that delivers the scientific facts and humane ethics…

Similarly to the bailout of Wall Street–but on a much more recurring basis–United States citizens unwittingly dole out their hard-earned money to sustain something even more heartless, unreliable and ineffective than Wall Street–animal research. April 16-24 marks World…

While Americans struggle to pay their bills, NASA has selfishly committed $1.75 million in taxpayer money to wasteful and cruel funding of experiments involving irradiating live squirrel monkeys. NASA’s proposed experiments would inundate tiny monkeys – only a foot tal…

While working out on the treadmill recently, I was stunned to see a television advertisement blatantly in support of animal research. The ad showed a laboratory researcher firmly gripping a mouse in her hand while she lauded the use of animals in research. As disgusted…