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Archive for the 'Animal Welfare' Category
Washington DC -July 14- Recent passage of the 2008 Farm Bill included funding for conservation and environmental programs. Robert Bonnie with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) talks about efforts to improve wildlife habitat, including the rare Ocelot in South Texas, and EDF’s concern with taking land setaside for conservation and allowing its return to agricultural uses, such as haying, grazing, and crop production. Join Mr. Bonnie and host Mike Duncan for this weeks edition of the WashingtonView Radio program.
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Washington DC -June 26- In response to the latest undercover video released June 25th by the Humane Society of the United States, the National Milk Producers Federation again condemns – as we did when HSUS released it first two videos in January and May – the treatment of the animals featured in the video clips.
Washington DC -April 30- Recommendations issued yesterday from a commission composed primarily of members opposed to modern livestock production if implemented likely would raise the cost of producing food animals and increase meat prices in the face of a global food crisis, according to the National Pork Producers Council. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -April 25- President Bush today signed a one-week Farm Bill extension which was passed by the Congress on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -April 21- Getting a Farm Bill passed yet this year is a top priority for the National Farmers Union (NFU). Tom Buis, President of NFU, told WashingtonView Radio today that the House and Senate need to come to an agreement soon.
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Washington DC -March 5- At the request of senior House and Senate agriculture committee staff, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided a detailed document developed from Administration analysis of impacts to current USDA programs - in the absence of enactment of a new farm bill or an extension of the 2002 farm bill past March 15, 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -March 5- The United States Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) applauded eight U.S. Senators for sending a letter this week to USDA Secretary Ed Schafer opposing regionalized beef trade with Argentina. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -July 23- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns has announced a measure to provide livestock in drought-affected states with needed additional hay and forage. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -May 10- The House Committee on Agriculture investigated the government’s response to melamine-tainted products imported from China that were used in pet food and animal feed products. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -May 8- Congressman Leonard Boswell, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry, held a hearing to discuss the welfare of animals in agriculture. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -May 1- The House has passed a bill to prohibit the shipping, possessing, purchasing, selling or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption and for other purposes. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -April 19- AMI President J. Patrick Boyle told the House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry that the U.S. meat packing industry is dynamic and competitive and that the industry will oppose legislative and regulatory efforts to restrict livestock marketing and packing procurement opportunities that have helped grow the industry and provided consumers the most affordable meat supply in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -April 19- The National Pork Producers Council today in congressional testimony told lawmakers what the country’s pork producers want and don’t want in the next Farm Bill. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -April 16- Speaking to the North American Agricultural Journalists meeting today, Kay Johnson, Executive Vice President of the Animal Agriculture Alliance said that improvements in animal welfare should be based on reason, science and experience, not on the opinions of activists who have absolutely no vested interest in farm animals or those who believe it is wrong to raise animals for food. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -March 26- “The size of a farm and its business configuration is not necessarily related to the quality of animal care,” said well-known animal welfare expert, Janice Swanson, PhD, at the Animal Agriculture Alliance’s sixth industry-wide Stakeholders Summit held March 19-21 in Arlington, Virginia. Read the rest of this entry »