The scene at 1am at the Kennedy Center.

TFW when you look at an Onion headline and think to yourself "that's actually kind of within the realm of possibility right now" 😬 My first thought was maybe Bayer developed GMO corn that can withstand high temps? The quest is on to monetize fire! theonion.com/epa-approves-us…

History made. For the first time since Gallup began tracking the issue, more Americans say medical testing on animals is morally wrong (48%) than morally acceptable (45%). Public expectations are changing. The future of science is human-relevant. Read more: navs.org/newsroom/public-opi…

More: propublica.org/article/trump…

The wildlife holocaust continues apace.

🐙🎉BREAKING NEWS, NEW YORK!🎉🐙 WE DID IT. The NYS Senate just passed our industrial octopus farming ban bill (S7421B) with strong bi-partisan support with a vote of 55-5! This is a major win for our brilliant, sentient ocean friends! 🌊 THANK YOU to our lead sponsor @NYSSenatorMRM and Senate leadership @AndreaSCousins @SenGianaris for getting this done. Please thank them! New York’s senators heard us loud and clear: Octopus do NOT belong on factory farms. Now onward to the Assembly!

Why nobody should take a meat eating environmentalist seriously

This case of "forever chemicals" contamination on a ranch shows their hiding corruption in plain sight...

This could just be one of the consequential cases in recent American history. Texas ranchers Tony and Karen Coleman watched 64 of their cattle die from toxic "forever chemicals” PFAS contamination which can all be traced to EPA-approved sewage sludge spread on a neighbor's land. The family ranch banded together with other farmers in a lawsuit against the EPA with two simple asks: 1. Have the EPA identify 18 specific PFAS found in biosolids that may cause harm to the environment 2. Force the EPA to regulate 11 that they had already identified but had not yet been regulated In simple terms, plaintiffs argued that identifying pollutants and regulating them within a reasonable timeframe was a duty not optional for the EPA. But unfortunately, the case Farmer v. EPA was dismissed last year by a federal judge. The precedent this sets is concerning considering the Coleman case is not merely an isolated story about two ranchers and 64 dead cattle, making other ranchers fear the worst is yet to come… According to the EPA itself, 60% of all sewage sludge produced by U.S. wastewater treatment plants is spread on farm fields each year. In the future, 70 million acres of U.S. farmland could be contaminated with PFAS from sewage sludge. For the Farmers pursuing regenerative and organic certification, this creates a profound threat. They never asked for it, but are paying the consequences of our Government’s incompetence giving all the more reason ranchers need your support directly. The system is not fair and it never will be, but what we will always have is the vote of our dollar.

"A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores." beyondplastics.org/press-rel…

Somebody asked me why I don't eat octopus. I told them that I do not eat any animals that are more intelligent than the current president.