Month: April 2009

When I was in California over spring break, I was fortunate enough to witness things that I had never before seen in North Carolina. I witnessed a protest in San Francisco by people who were against and for Proposition Eight. Proposition Eight is a law that citizens are trying to pass in California to ban same sex marriage. It was amazing to see all the people standing on one side with signs as well as rainbow colored clothing that read “Yes on 8,” and on the other side people with shirts that stated “Man + Woman = Marriage.”

Animal welfare has been a growing concern within the United States, as well as the rest of the world. It sparked in the 1980’s when Ingrid Newkirk decided to launch “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,” also known as PETA. This organization promotes the vegan lifestyle and condemns using animals for any kind of food, experimentation, entertainment, furniture, clothing, etc. They also go as far as to say that it is wrong to keep animals as domesticated pets.