Cage-free eggs came to Latin America’s largest McDonald’s operator in October 2016, when Arcos Dorados pledged to eliminate battery cages across roughly 2,200 restaurants in 20 countries. The commitment followed years of quiet groundwork by Humane Society International. For a region where cage-free sourcing had barely registered, it marked a meaningful shift in what food companies were willing to promise.
Egypt’s fight against female genital mutilation reached a turning point in 2016, when the death of 17-year-old Mayar Mohamed Mousa during a procedure in Suez triggered a public criminal investigation. A UN survey captured the deeper shift: 92 percent of Egyptian mothers had undergone FGM, but only 35 percent intended it for their daughters.
CO2-to-ethanol conversion arrived by accident in 2016, when researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee applied voltage to a copper-and-carbon nano-spike catalyst and watched ethanol emerge as the dominant product. About 63% of the output was ethanol — unusually clean for a single-step reaction. A quiet reminder that science often stumbles into its better answers.
Maricopa County, Arizona, 2016: federal prosecutors announced criminal contempt charges against Sheriff Joe Arpaio for defying a judge’s order to halt immigration patrols that had been ruled racially discriminatory against Latino drivers. By then, taxpayers had already spent $48 million on the case. For a community that had documented the harm for years, it was a rare moment of formal accountability.
According to its website, NCI is touted as “the U.S. government’s principal agency for cancer research.” And recently, it quietly admitted that cancer cells have been killed by cannabis in a lab setting.
The day after Labor Day, Oakland City Council made a bold proclamation in support of democratic and equitable workplaces, passing the “Resolution Supporting the Development of Worker Cooperatives In Oakland.”
At the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015, more than 150 world leaders adopted the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The World Bank projects that the number of people living in poverty fell to 702 million people in 2015, or about 9.6% of the global population.
All of the district high schools and most middle schools will be starting later than in the past, at 8:45 a.m., while many elementary schools will be starting earlier, at 7:55 a.m. A few elementary and K-8 schools will start at 9:35 a.m.
