Animal rights making inroads in Congress, boardrooms

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Animal rights making inroads in Congress, boardrooms

 

By LANCE GAY

Scripps Howard News Service

 

WASHINGTON -- The issue of animal rights is getting a more receptive

ear in boardrooms and on Capitol Hill.

The reasons: leading fast-food companies have vowed to stop buying

meat from farms and slaughterhouses that mistreat animals, and

lawmakers are threatening to impose new regulations.

 

To illustrate how far the pendulum is swinging on the subject,

activists point to Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., who chairs the Senate

Appropriations Committee. He says he's disgusted by the cruelty of

modern industrial farming practices.

 

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