Europeans and immigrants believe that meat is a critical part of the human diet, but ancient Native Americans had a much more varied diet. Linda Fisher believes her American Indian ancestors would say it’s time to stop the suffering and the killing.

Plutonium remains a threat to future civilizations. This reckless, uncontrolled release of radioactive isotopes has fouled the earth, writes Joe Giambrone.

From Tel Aviv to Baghdad, lifelong peace activist Bert Sacks remembers why true transformation comes from the power of nonviolence.

By denying the intelligence in animals, ignoring their extensive abilities to feel and to live as subjects in their own ways in the natural world, we have made our culture and ourselves less intelligent, writes Will Tuttle.

The carbon tax debate is an opportunity for Prime Minister Gillard to take real leadership on climate change issues and legislate to reduce emissions and to greatly expand renewable energy production, writes Leila Barreto.

An anti-Free Trade Agreement protest that took place outside an International Congress on AIDS in the Asia Pacific (ICAAP) in Busan in South Korea on 27 August was violently attacked by police. One protestor was illegally detained, while others were dragged, beaten and verbally abused, according to participants at the event, writes Rachel Evans.

The demand for shark fin soup has driven many shark species to the brink of extinction, and threatens to destabilise the entire marine ecosystem. While some progressive conservation steps have recently been made, tough international measures are urgently needed to protect sharks, writes Susannah Waters.

Award-winning journalist Will Potter describes the day he became a victim of the ‘Green Scare’, aged 22, when the FBI knocked on his door, threatened to make a scene at his place of work, The Chicago Tribune, ruin his career and Fulbright scholarship as well as his partner’s PhD scholarships, and put him on the domestic terrorist list – all for passing out leaflets with an animal advocacy group – unless he agreed to provide them with information about his fellow activists.

The recent massacres by Anders Breivik in Norway drew the attention of the world to a growing reactionary element in Europe who resent the three Ms – Muslims, multiculturalism and Marxism. So how do these attacks relate to multiculturalism in Europe? By James Jupp.

Due to genetic manipulation, humans have bred domestic turkeys into deformed beings who can no longer reproduce naturally, resulting in a cruel system of forced masturbation of male turkeys and rape of female birds, writes Lara Drew.

Activists in Russia are facing some of the most frightening enemies in their struggle to protect an area of forest. The campaign for the Khimki Forest, spearheaded by 33 year-old mother and business woman Yevgenia Chrikova, has attracted dangerous attention from the Russian Government, writes Lilia Letsch.

In a world where each disabled person is taken as a representative of the whole and the voice of the least inconvenient disabled person is believed to be the best authority, the ‘supercrip’ has very real and very dangerous consequences, writes s.e. smith.