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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Several countries, including Austria, Bolivia, Colombia, Greece, Peru, Britain and Paraguay, have already imposed or approved bans. Why is the United States lagging so far behind? When not performing, animals spend most of their lives caged or chained in tractor-trailers and railroad boxcars while traveling from city to city.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

Animal Person

Romeo Vasquez, who led it, is an alumnus of the United States' School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. 3) George W. 5) All of this leads us once again to the inevitable conclusion: you and I must change the system.

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