Assault on agriculture animal science

Assault on agriculture animal science I just returned from Phoenix where I spent a week with some of our bright young minds majoring in Ag and animal science at top universities. Their excitement and professionalism for the future of the college of agriculture was infectious. It was stretch to visualize that theses young Ag professionals could easily face discrimination for their choice of study. But it is true, apparently a new group called Responsible Policies for Animals is bent on abolishing the teaching of animal Ag sciences at our land grant universities. David Cantor, the group's founder, believes that teaching animal agriculture diminishes our universities' credibility and intellectual integrity and has no place at the college level. By using students and "influential" individuals he is developing a campaign targeting land grant universities. Today, it is easy to dismiss his actions as insignificant, but as we learned in the past, when it comes to extremists, the small seeds they plant today could become quite invasive and toxic tomorrow. To learn more about these groups' agenda visit Food Forethought .org. I'm Susan Allen with Food Forethought. Sources: Iowa State Daily Organization aims to stop teaching of animal agriculture at universities By Ruth Neil September 09 2003 http://www.iowastatedaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/09/3f5d420ea66f9http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/2003/000177.html