Tag: advocacy
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Despite consumer protests, Yellow Tail follows through with HSUS Donation
If you checked on either my blog, Agropinion or Advocates for Agriculture, you would have seen the cry for action from agriculturalists. Yellow Tail wines pledged $100,000 to HSUS to help ‘save puppies and kittens’. Upon hearing this, agriculturalists from across the nation posted on Yellow Tail’s page their disgust with the decision and supposedly Yellow Tail was…
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Yellow Tail wine to support HSUS!
I read this on Troy Hadrick’s Advocates for Agriculture blog – Yellow Tail wines is pledging $100,000 to HSUS in order to help save puppies and kittens etc. The news was released in an article by the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance yesterday. I have cut and pasted the entire article below for your reading displeasure. U.S. Sportmen’s…
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February is I Heart Beef month!
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is kicking off a month-long consumer awareness program to instigate a conversation about America’s love for beef. The “I Heart Beef” program is designed to help increase demand for beef by elevating consumers’ desire for great steaks like the T-bone and tenderloin (my mouth is already watering). A secondary emphasis of this program is…
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HSUS Trying to Take Down Ohio….Again
Today, news was released that HSUS has filed an amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would force the Ohio Livestock Care and Standards Board (see “A Battle Won for Animal Agriculture” 11/5/09) to adopt minimum requirements for all farmers and livestock producers. Those minimum requirements are: – Prohibit a farm owner or operator from tethering…
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Legislation to help horse slaughter
A new bill being proposed by Missouri Representative Jim Viebrock will bypass a 2006 federal law that prohibits federal money from being utilized for the inspections of horse slaughter plants. The 2006 law put the last remaining horse slaughter plants in Texas and Illinois out of business, however; it doesn’t specifically outlaw slaughter. The new bill by…