Oregon Considered

A Multicultural View of Animals

June 01, 2005

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The different roles that animals play in your life depends not only on your culture but on your particular experience. If you grew up on a farm for example, you probably see a chicken differently than someone who only ever saw poultry shrink-wrapped at the grocery store.

That influence was dramatically illustrated for one Ugandan villager, Asaba Mukobi, when he moved to Oregon. As Kristian Foden-Vencil reports, Mukobi started an award-winning program bringing a multicultural view of animals to African children.

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