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A recent agreement between farmers and animalrights activists here is a rare compromise in the bitter and growing debate over large-scale, intensive methods of producing eggs and meat, and may well push farmers in other states to give ground, experts say.
It's in response to the HBO film "Death on a FactoryFarm." The Pork Board has planned delegate meetings at the {annual Pork Industry} forum to discuss quality assurance rules including animal handling, and how much money to allocate to promote animal welfare. I have a hard time with the logic of that statement.
There are no happy farmanimals, you liars. Clearly the animalrights community is much more emboldened and aggressive than they have been in the past," said {National Milk Producers Federation} spokesman Chris Galen. Tags: farmanimal welfare factoryfarm agribusiness. We need to play offense."
A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by AnimalRights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farmanimals from the abuses inherent in factoryfarms.
Animalrights advocates have singled out the crates, known as sow stalls, as inhumane, and several states have moved to ban or restrict their use not only in pork production, but also in the production of eggs and veal.
Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. It is not just a few outspoken animalrights fanatics who hold this view. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so. Cohen, The AnimalRights Debate , p.
Animalrights activists are behind the burning of cattle trucks at Harris Farms in western Fresno County early Sunday, according to a statement released by a clearinghouse for activists. And, this happened in Fresno County which is in the San Joaquin Valley of California. I grew up there. Full story here at the Fresno Bee.
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