The Ithacan

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Maybe it’s just me but….
Does anyone else find the anthropomorphization of animals by commercial agribusiness disgusting?

A common misconception about veganism is that vegans don’t drink milk. Many vegans, however, drink milk every day. The milk just doesn’t come from cows.

Celebrate International Sloth Day with a bucket of sloths!

In honor of the upcoming World Day for Farmed Animals on Thursday, October 2nd, many people are uploading #FastAgainstSlaughter pledges to social media websites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Lights will quite literally shine upon endangered animals at United Nation Headquarters this weekend. On the eve of the People’s Climate March in New York City this weekend, the Oceanic Preservation Society is planning to project larger-than-life sized images of endangered species to raise social awareness.

It’s Monday. You’re tired, overwhelmed, and not looking forward to another busy week.

While distracted with the tedious intricacies of a national financial disaster, the United States Federal Government fails to acknowledge the presence of an ongoing humanitarian crisis in its own backyard.

The City of Ithaca signed a carbon emission reducing resolution for the Clean Air Act to push the EPA to put a cap on the carbon atmospheric levels.

A re-enactment of a Frederick Douglass speech was put together by The History Center in Tompkins County, the Roy H. Park School of Communications and St. James AME Zion Church with funding from the Park Foundation.

Timothy Richard Leonard, 64, passed away unexpectedly at Cayuga Medical Center on Monday. Leonard was the manager of the Ithaca College Towers Dining Hall.

As part of the Department of Writing’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, poet Thomas Sayers Ellis read at Ithaca College on Wednesday.

REMP and Take Back the Tap are hosting an environmentally focused film series this month to raise awareness of water and sustainability issues.