On the banned list...

...are FLUSH TOILETS. Flush toilets ? You better believe it. They are apparently responsible for the deaths of untold numbers of goldfish. No, no, no, so sorry got that wrong. It's GOLDFISH that are to be banned. No kidding. Their lives as pets swimming round in dirty little bowls, psychotic with boredom and so intolerably overfed they explode has been deemed cruel. So cruel that their purchase as pets is to cease. So says The San Francisco Animal Control and Welfare Commission anyway. Puppies, guppies, hamsters and kittens (and pythons pining for the fjords) are likely to be next.

Global warming and ecosystems ya see... Read all about it here..

..and from the UK Guardian...

...Leaving climate change out of the curriculum would allow sceptical teachers not to teach their pupils about climate change. “It would be like a creationist teacher not teaching about evolution," said Bob Ward.
Climate change should not be included in the national curriculum, the government adviser in charge of overhauling the school syllabus in England has said. Tim Oates, whose wide-ranging review of the curriculum for five- to 16-year-olds will be published later this year, said it should be up to schools to decide whether – and how – to teach climate change, and other topics about the effect scientific processes have on our lives. In an interview with the Guardian, Oates called for the national curriculum "to get back to the science in science". "We have believed that we need to keep the national curriculum up to date with topical issues, but oxidation and gravity don't date," he said. "We are not taking it back 100 years; we are taking it back to the core stuff. The curriculum has become narrowly instrumentalist...more here...