I'm an animal rights activist and about as hardcore vegan as they come. I put animal rights before everything; it is my number one priority. But being an animal rights activist does not mean that one must endorse all animal rights organizations, just as being a human rights activist does not mean that one endorses all human rights organizations.
It's 2008 and to the north of us, a barbaric practice still continues to occur annually in an ice-cold segment in Canada. It's 2008 and the argument for cruelty is the preservation of culture and tradition.
USDA officials have recalled 143 million pounds of beef, enough meat to feed two hamburgers to every man woman and child in the United States, as reported by the Associated Press. A video broadcast across the nation showed sickening and cruel abuse of ill, dying, or crippled cattle at a slaughterhouse associated with the recall.
