Animal Rights isn’t a new issue. In fact, it goes way back. Here’s a 1936 Betty Boop cartoon via You Tube called “Be Human” that would never be produced and shown to kids or families today. It depects a sadistic person beating an animal and a human getting his sadistic payoff at the end. But the underlying message is a good one.
Before yours truly had this blog, I did some writing for this organization.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, writes a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.