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Martin Luther King III called on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema "to urgently pass federal voting rights legislation.".

Family members of the civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.'s organized in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday to call on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to support efforts to expand voting rights.

Martin Luther King III, the late civil rights leader's eldest son, was joined Saturday by his wife, Arndrea Waters King, and by his daughter, Yolanda Renee King. »

Just two plant-based food companies have helped spare at least 630,000 animals’ lives in 2021, and that’s just in the US.

The international charity looked at some of the US restaurant chains offering Beyond Meat or Impossible Foods’ products, such as Burger King and Panda Express.

Nearly 80,000 cows were spared last year thanks to diners choosing Beyond Meat or Impossible Foods products. »

Low-income countries, which have few vaccine research and production facilities, have vaccinated just one in nine people, according to the World Health Organization.

The process to create the vaccine involves the use of yeast – the same method by which hepatitis B vaccines are produced.

Crucially, storing the Corbevax vaccine only requires standard refrigeration, unlike the Pfizer vaccine, which requires ultra-cold storage in transit. »

New York has joined California, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts in requiring the biggest sources of food waste to donate excess food or recycle food waste.

The law, called the Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling Law, first passed in 2019.

The hierarchy focuses primarily on reducing the sources of food waste, followed by donating excess food to those in need. »