AgWeb.com has an article about Prop 2 that’s written for the factory farming community. A few choice excerpts:
…the agriculture sector got spanked in the Proposition 2 vote in California Tuesday.
Spanked. I like that.
Prop 2, which will hang a for-sale sign on the egg laying business in our nation’s largest state, won handily, with upwards of 63% of the vote.
You know it’s bad writing when it’s impossible to figure out what the author is trying to say. Is he saying that just about every large California egg producer will abandon their California operations? In any case, it’s nice to see this talked about in such dire terms, even if the author’s meaning gets lost in a cloudy metaphor.
But here’s the really interesting point; the analysis of why Prop 2 won:
Even though the Governator, and many of the state’s newspapers, opined against the ballot initiative, the Humane Society poured enough resources into the fight to win. They had emotions; the opponents mostly tried to use economic facts. Guess which was more effective?
The above passage shows how out of touch the author, and some factory farming people, are in regard to what really happened. Prop 2 didn’t win because emotions won out over economic facts. Prop 2 won because California voters overwhelmingly rejected cruelty to animals.
And despite receiving a swift kick in the teeth, we see that factory farming interests remain so out of touch when it comes to animal cruelty that they still don’t have a clue about what happened.
Keep blaming voters for being emotional, and watch what happens to your industry. (Thanks, Paul.) Link.
