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Is fishing ethical? Being ethical means acting humanely towards others. Therefore capturing, killing and eating fish against their basic desire to live—from commercial practices to casual recreational anglers is considered immoral and unethical. However, proving the sentience of aquatic animals, in addition to the populations who need to eat fish to survive, adds endless shades of grey to this answer. With up to 2.7 trillion wild-caught fish and 14.8 million tonnes of farmed fish harvested for human consumption each year, the concerns of sustainability, slave labour, and public health are growing, and rightly so! What’s troubling is that most of...

with a case! The charging case for your AirPods and AirPods 2 are perfect for protecting those precious in-ear miracles. But what about protecting the Charging Case? The hard shell can get scratched and scuffed just like any other device, and let's not even talk about what might happen if you drop the case from four feet off the ground. Here is the list of the best AirPod cases to protect your AirPods charging case and suit your personality better. These cases all fit the first and second-generation AirPods Charging Case, including the Wireless Charging Case. If you are looking...

— Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. For better or worse, the coronavirus has ensured that traveling will never feel the same. While vaccinations are allowing more people to hit the road again, the less-hygienic parts of travel—from packed trains and planes to campground and road-stop bathrooms—will no doubt have us reaching for sanitizing backup from our carry-on more than we ever did before. Itching to travel but nervous about the germs in those highly trafficked spaces? Travel-friendly hygiene accessories can help banish bacteria and viruses from your...

Let’s dive in! These are arranged roughly in order of target audience age. Fitz and Cleo by Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox Fitz and Cleo are siblings who also happen to be ghosts; this book is a chapter-book comic, divided up into 11 short stories, as they have silly adventures and play with their cat, Mister Boo. (Cleo loves Mister Boo and gets along well; Fitz is a bit more skeptical and Mister Boo responds accordingly.) The stories are cute and have funny endings; most are fairly short at just a couple of pages long. I’ll note that although the...

ss Dear EarthTalk: Besides generating seasonal allergens, do any plants actually reduce air quality or cause air pollution? —Mike T., San Juan, PR While many of us thought Ronald Reagan sounded crazy back in 1981 when he told America that “trees cause more pollution than automobiles do,” the then-President may have been on to something. Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley recently unveiled the results of a study in which they determined that certain trees and plants common in Southern California off-gas natural yet nevertheless harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs)—to attract pollinators, protect against environmental stressors, and repel...