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OFBF creates Center for Food and Animal Issues

To influence the public dialog over the role animals play in society, the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF) has created the Center for Food and Animal Issues.

“There are so many things that the animals provide to society and we want to protect people’s opportunity for choice, good common sense and very effective animal care in working with this relationship between people and animals, but our bottom line is that people come first,” said Jack Fisher, executive vice president of OFBF.

The Center will focus on research and development, public relations, education and information with the entire animal kingdom.

“Our primary interest immediately is livestock production, but certainly this involves hunters and fishermen, this involves the entire area of animal research, this involves animals for entertainment, be it zoos, aquariums, even reaching into the equine industry,” Fisher said.

AUDIO: Interview with Jack Fisher

Fisher tells Brownfield they are in the process of staffing the Center and he hopes to have a vice president named within the next couple of weeks. To support the Center’s mission, a subsidiary of the Center, the Animals for Life Foundation, will focus on fund raising.