Posted on February 29 at 7:35 a.m.

Having lived on a cattle ranch in my teen years, I've been involved in the slaughter of animals. Looking an animal in the eyes and killing it is a hard thing to do (at least it should be) and respect should always be given to the animal for giving it's life to help sustain yours. Production line slaughter houses have always disgusted me because I've always believed that the only people who could work there day in and day out have to be animal torturers. I wouldn't be suprised if any of the individuals involved in the SPCA investigation didn't have some incidents in their childhoods of dousing cats with gas and setting them alight.

On Downed Cow Disgrace

Posted on February 16 at 5:10 a.m.

Santa Barbara County Jail puts new inmates into general population without doing a TB test. If the inmate is there for 2 weeks, THEN a TB test is done. Wouldn't it be more cost effective, in the long run, to give each new inmate a skin test upon arrival, segregate them for the 3 days it takes to get a result and then house them in general population? Instead, someone infected not only has the potential to infect the people they're housed with but also anyone in close proximity on the bus to court, the guards at the jail and the courts, etc.
When is the American government going to start caring more about it's citizens instead of the bottom dollar?

On Stopping Homelessness May Protect All from Epidemics