Tag: livestock production
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Success in the Buckeye State!
Ohio passes livestock care bill By Jill Blocker April 1, 2010 Livestock in Ohio will get better care and housing arrangements, thanks to Gov. Ted Strickland’s signing of House Bill 414 into law Wednesday. The bill provides policies and procedures for the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board, which will set animal care standards for livestock…
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Indiana Animal Care Board – easy as 1,2,3
The latest news on state approved Animal Care Board comes to us from Indiana where House Bill 1099 recenlty became established as a state law and ensures that the Indiana Board of Animal Health would be the sole regulator of animal care standards. The news release below is from Hoosier Ag Today (HAT) with Gary Truitt.…
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Don’t Dis Cows for Climate Change
At the recent American Chemical Society National Meeting, a report from University of California-Davis, Clearing the Air: Livestock’s Contribution to Climate Change, was presented and soundly refuted the claims of Livestock’s Long Shadow, the controversial U.N. report that stated livestock production is responsible for 18% of GHG emissions annually. According to Frank Mitloehner, Ph.D, (pictured)…
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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…