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Animal Ag Alliance frustrated with activist agenda
The Animal Ag Alliance is frustrated animal rights activists continue to target states that have a poor understanding of modern agriculture.
Hannah Thompson-Weeman with the Alliance says activist groups want to take advantage of people who lack knowledge about certain production practices.
She points to the Humane Society of the U.S. pushing a ballot initiative in Massachusetts dealing with housing requirements for sows and laying hens in 2016.
“Obviously Massachusetts is not a big player in the poultry or pork industry, and that’s exactly why they try to get legislation passed in states like that.”
Earlier this month Oregon passed a law requiring all eggs sold in the state come from cage-free facilities.
“And again that’s exactly why, they want to set a precedent. They go to states that don’t have a very large industry that they’re targeting, so then they can say a certain number of states passed this legislation even if those states don’t represent a majority of production.”
Thompson-Weeman tells Brownfield another example is Florida where HSUS fought for measures against certain confinement practices in animal production.
Florida is not a top 10 egg producing state and is not among the top 30 in pork production.
So animal activists try to pass laws that will be “reducing efficiency and driving up food costs..”
Really? Well the more cruel it is the cheaper it is and any business will tell you keeping costs down is where it’s at. If it is too hard to make a profit where the animals are being well treated, what does that tell you? Efficiency is at the forefront of business but these have live beings at the heart of it, and you can’t afford to be kind to these “units of production.” The most dangerous thought is to forget that these so called beings are really just things lest you get soft and start losing money by being kind.
Shame on you for this way of thinking.