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Act Now or Surrender to HSUS
From Troy Hadrick’s Advocates for Agriculture — verbatim. HSUS supports bill to re-define animal cruelty John Maday Monday, March 08, 2010 U.S. Representatives Diane Watson (D-Calif.) and Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.) introduced H.R. 4733, the “Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act,” last week. The bill would set federal standards regulating housing and animal treatment on operations…
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Beef: It’s All Goooooood
Is grass-fed beef better than grain-fed beef? Is organic better than conventional? These are common questions the beef industry faces on a daily basis. A lot of people will tell you one way; the rest the other. However, the point is not which is better but that all methods of beef production yield the same…
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No Comment? – Not from an agriculturalist
“Don’t let another anti-ag article go by without trying to correct it” – these were words shared with the K-State Collegiate Cattlewomen chapter at a media training session put on by the Kansas Beef Council and Kansas Livestock Association. Kevin Thielen and Scarlett Hagins conducted the session and made several key points about being an advocate…
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Food For Thought: Even the Quiet Can Be Advocates
I am the fourth generation in a rodeo/ranching/agricultural family and when I think about my great-grandpa, grandpa and even my father having a spare minute to set up a ‘town hall meeting’ with consumers about the truths of animal agriculture, it makes me giggle. Partly because nobody in the Buzzard family is overly talkative but even…
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Ohio Tells H$U$ to Take a Hike
On November 3rd, 2009, Ohioans united and passed Issue 2, the establishment of the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board, overwhelmingly – proactively ebbing legislative efforts from HSUS to regulate the welfare standards for livestock in Ohio. After Issue 2 passed, HSUS issued a statement stating that HSUS will ‘submit a ballot initiative next year in Ohio…