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Why Companies Aren't Required to Label Their Products 'Conflict-Free'
This August, a court ruled that labeling goods made using minerals from warlord-controlled mines is a matter of opinion on moral responsibility, not a factual statement relevant to investors.
Your Sunscreen Is Destroying the Great Barrier Reef
And so the chain of environmental devastation continues.
Sarcasm Is Good For The Soul (Or At Least Your Mind)
Recent studies have found that "all forms of sarcastic exchanges" exercise your brain. Nice.
The Earth Has Less Nutrients Due to a Shortage of Animal Poop
We now know that shit's worth more than jack shit.
This Guy Wants to Grant Asylum to All the Stray Cats in Israel
Uri Ariel of Israel's far-right Jewish Home party has suggested that Israel should "transfer stray dogs and cats...to a foreign nation that will agree to accept them."
A Russian Gang Sent Its Flag into Outer Space
The gang's leader has garnered media attention before with statements like, "We have to burn out all the feminism and homosexuality from our Orthodox Christian country with hot steel."
Some Swedish Doctors Are Performing Virginity Tests, Against Their Patients' Will
The tests have little scientific basis, but could save a life.