Our friends at the Animal Agriculture Alliance are back with another article. This is an organization, you may recall, who wants undercover cruelty investigators subject to criminal prosecution. In this new article, the Alliance laments Wednesday’s Ohio compromise. Some choice statements:
To be clear—the only group to benefit from this agreement is HSUS.
Funny, I’d say that Ohio’s millions of farmed animals are another group that benefits. And what about Ohio omnivores who would like to remove the worst and most preventable cruelties from the meat, milk, and eggs that they eat? I’d call that another very large group that benefits from the agreement.
No one understands animal care better than farmers and ranchers.
No one understands how to keep mortality rates acceptably low at least expense like factory farmers. But I would hardly call that “animal care,” since the cruelties involved are staggering.
The agriculture industry has evolved over the past 100 years to improve animal welfare and meet increased food demand. Reverting to 1950s style practices would not be beneficial to the animals nor the consumer.
Nonsense. It’s always sucked to be a farmed animal, but at least prior to the 1940s there was no such thing as battery cages or gestation crates—and farmed animals typically had more space and opportunity to express their instinctual behaviors than they do today.
HSUS is an extremist animal rights group that does not deserve a seat at the discussion table on issues of farm animal welfare.
The Animal Agriculture Alliance doesn’t even praise the part of Wednesday’s deal that will impose felony-level charges on cockfighters. And they’re calling HSUS extremists? (Thanks, Paul.) Link.
