Ritual killing of chickens....Kapparot

[Catherine]

We have let these things go on for years and done nothing. Now people are looking at animal sacrifice and seeing it as wrong. It is just not easy to stop something that has history. They can claim discrimination. I just can't accept that any long standing practice is alright just because it is a long standing practice.

Take the action out of context and you know it is wrong. Abusing and killing a chicken like that is wrong. Dressing it up in tradition, culture and religion doesn't make it right.

It is fine to respect tradition and culture, but they shouldn't be an excuse for doing bad things. 
It is the same with scientific studies. Just because you call it science doesn't make a wrong action right.