Special Report
Summit centers on animal agriculture and activists facing off
The 12th Annual Animal Agriculture Stakeholder’s Summit examines how to deal with activism that threatens the raising of livestock. Their theme is Activists at the Door: Protecting Animals, Farms, Food and Consumer Confidence.
The two-day summit, beginning Wednesday, includes sessions about maintaining transparency when engaging media concerning controversial animal agriculture issues. Addressing the summit is USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Administrator Alfred Almanza, who will speak about the agency’s procedures for handling undercover activist videos.
A panel discussion at the summit Thursday centers on fighting activists in the courtroom. Another looks at the consequences of forging partnerships with environmental and animal rights groups.
The Animal Agriculture Alliance is a coalition of people and organizations in the livestock and meat production business who try to create understanding of animal agriculture’s role in supplying food.
AUDIO: Emily Meridith (4 min. MP3)
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If you guys dont have anything to hide..LET THE PEOPLE WHO CARE SEE WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON! Be TRANSPARENT. Innocent people have nothing to hide. Guilty people have everything hide and even more to lose. I am in shock that the you are at peace with the size of your chin, belly, and POCKETS growing all off the mistreatment and ABUSE of animals. Ordinary, every day people go to jail for animal cruelty. Yet, big corporations get off free and even get to profit. Blood money.
The Agriculture community clearly does not want any filming of the horrid abuse that goes on in the meat and dairy industry, because it’s bad for their profits. They DO NOT care about the abuse of their animals. I hope all of you that abuse animals rot in the same way.