Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). This Op-Ed first appeared on the blog A Humane Nation, where it ran before appearing in LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
I thought Nicholas Kristof was right on point this week in his wide-ranging column about animal protection as a critical moral question in today's society. Society will indeed look back on this time, as Kristof says, and wonder how humanity could have been so callous and cruel in its treatment of innocent and vulnerable creatures.
In addition to the myriad ways in which people exploit or assault animals — in the form of factory farming, puppy mills, seal clubbing, animal fighting, horse soring and so many other abuses — there are also so many attempts by animal-use industries to thwart reform and to slow and complicate the journey forward.
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