Polli Minnell

Foie gras products are derived from force-feeding young ducks with enormous amounts of grain in order to produce abnormally large livers, eight or more times the size of a healthy liver. The cruel and unhealthy force-feeding of birds for foie gras production has been banned in over a dozen

We have reached the last stand for Sumatran orangutans, but it's not too late to save them. Many Americans are being made into unwitting accomplices in the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests—which provide crucial habitat for a number of endangered species like the Sumatran orangutan—because

My cousin Sarah and I started this petition because we wanted to stop the senseless killing of sharks for their fins.  We've taken our campaign to the streets of Florida to build momentum for a statewide ban.  We need your support to help us put pressure on leaders to protect one of the most

Debra White Plume is a Lakota mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Fighting against corporate interests and greed, she is leading a grassroots battle to block the Keystone XL Pipeline from crossing her community's sacred land.  Quoted Debra, "Through the long, hot summer we will provide

On June 29th 2012 our son was a pedestrian walking home and was struck and killed by a minivan. The woman who killed our son was allowed to leave the scene after calling her husband within a half hour of striking our son, never having to take a breathalyzer or having to prove she was not under any