HSUS President's Visit Concerns Some Minnesota Farmers
Wayne Pacelle, HSUS president and CEO, will be at Golden Valley's Animal Humane Society today to promote his new book. His visit has some local farmers worried that consumers will view common animal agriculture practices in a negative light.
Minnesota is home to more than 80,000 farms and currently leads the nation in turkey production. The majority of farmers in animal agriculture today use cages to contain their animals—something that Humane Society of the United States President Wayne Pacelle isn't happy about. "Animals built to move should be allowed to move," Pacelle said, referring to animals that are raised in cages. "Jamming laying hens in barren battery cages where they're shoulder to shoulder is just not right." Today, Pacelle will visit Golden Valley's Animal Humane Society to talk about his new book and address other local animal care issues, like the treatment of animals raised for food and Minnesota's wolf hunt. His visit to a farming state has some animal …
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Terry Ward
7:26 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Maybe it’s time to stop calling pigs in steel traps and sardine-can chickens and miles of semi-immobile cows ‘farming’. This is not farming. This never was ‘farming’. It is assembly-line food animal production/processing. There are farmers and there are assembly-line food producers. Farming is an honorable endeavor. There is nothing honorable in animals traveling through automated assembly … more ›