At least 115 million animals are abused, experimented on, and killed in laboratories across the U.S. every year. Common practices in animal testing—such as pumping chemicals into rats’ stomachs, removing portions of rabbits’ skulls, cutting chunks of muscle out of dogs’ thighs, and keeping infant primates in isolation chambers—are funded by you, the American consumer. […]
The statistics on domestic violence across gender, age, ethnic/racial, socioeconomic, educational, and sexual orientation groups are staggering.
It’s like a lava lamp. But while you just watched that live-stream of the largest oil spill in United States history for a few seconds, thousands more gallons of oil spewed out into the Gulf of Mexico, bringing the most conservative estimated grand total to beyond 9,030,000 gallons of oil as of June 1, 2010. […]