Standard Industry Practice?

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Standard Industry Practice? MINNEAPOLIS -- Costco Wholesale Corp. on Tuesday joined a growing list of retailers and restaurants in asking suppliers to phase out the use of small pens for pregnant sows, as an animal welfare group prepared to release an undercover video showing conditions at one of its suppliers. Monstrous Iceberg Breaks Off From Greenland Glacier Deadly Heat Wave Sees Temperatures Spike Into Triple Digits WATCH: 'Don't Frack My Mother' New Keystone XL Route Still Crosses Fragile Areas FAA Under Scrutiny For Offshore Wind Project BLOG POSTS Annie Leonard: Why Changing Your Lightbulbs Won't Save the Planet We need a big idea of how things could be better -- a morally compelling, ecologically sustainable and socially just idea that will not just make things a little better for a few, but a lot better for everyone. And we need to get active. Rep. Dennis Kucinich: If You Lived Downwind From This Power Plant, Would You Be Concerned? Davis-Besse, a nuclear power plant just 30 miles from downtown Toledo, does not provide the same margin of safety that it did when it was built 34 years ago. Will we allow the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to simply lower its standards? Scott Morgan: A Big Mistake In Obama's War on Medical Marijuana Obama once said that undermining medical marijuana laws was a poor use of resources, and he was right. But it's not only a poor use of resources, it's also just plain wrong. As a candidate, and as a leader, it's time for our president to make things right. Stanley Coren: Dog Facts: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Your Pet (PHOTOS) Dogs are full of mysteries and secrets. They have a long lost history that they never tell to humans. They have a mysterious way of thinking that only other dogs understand. They have a secret language that they use when they are talking to dogs and people. Carl Safina: Life Finds a Way -- But Needs Our Help The science is clear that coral reefs are in many places degraded and in serious trouble. But no science has, or likely can, determine that reefs and all their associated non-coral creatures are unequivocally, equally and everywhere, completely doomed to total non-existence.

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