Wisconsin, America’s enchanted forest of cheeses, milks, and ice creams, is currently the home to one of the creamiest dairy debates in all the land about whether or not the governing powers that be should have the authority to punish dairy entrepreneurs for selling raw milk. If dairy consumers want to roll the dice… » 5/12/13 4:00pm 5/12/13 4:00pm

The New York Times featured a fairly horrifying report on Saturday about the supposedly rigorous testing household chemicals have to undergo before they’re deemed safe for public consumption, revealing that the testing isn’t actually all that rigorous. Even as we dally on the Internet, our homes could be stocked full… » 4/14/13 3:30pm 4/14/13 3:30pm

Sugar is delicious. It makes a bad day a little brighter; it makes food taste a little better; it makes cupcakes and pies. Sure, it may not be good for us, but why would we ever want to get rid of it? Well, we wouldn't want to, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. At least that's what a new commentary published in the… » 2/02/12 4:20pm 2/02/12 4:20pm

Well, so much for our neighbors to the north being a paragon of politeness and acceptance. There's been a disturbing change made to Canadian airport security screening rules which means that now transgender people are not allowed to board airplanes in the country. That is obviously hugely problematic and insane for… » 1/30/12 9:45pm 1/30/12 9:45pm

Today, Virginia's Board of Health is voting on a bill that would essentially put the vast majority of the state's first-trimester abortion clinics out of business by regulating them like hospitals. » 9/15/11 10:40am 9/15/11 10:40am

In the wake of a controversial decision to pull sexually themed applications from the iTunes store, Apple is toying with adding a new "explicit" category to its current offerings. While my inner feminist cheers, my inner technophile is concerned. » 2/25/10 2:40pm 2/25/10 2:40pm

The Swiss Animal Protection Agency has released a harrowing report » 8/20/08 12:40pm 8/20/08 12:40pm that chronicles the Chinese fur trade, which produces approximately 85 percent of the world's fur products and whose animal treatment is almost completely unregulated. Although the practices employed - beating animals with a metal or wooden stick or…