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Another farm issue heading to ballot?
Only three months after agri-business convinced Ohio voters to create a Livestock Standards Board, the Humane Society of the United States announced Monday, Feb. 1, that it’ll push for another state constitutional amendment to regulate how farm animals are treated in Ohio.
Ohioans for Humane Farms plans to collect more than 403,000 valid signatures from registered voters by July 1 to put an anti-cruelty measure on the November ballot, said Paul Shapiro, spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States.
HSUS spent $10 million on a similar campaign in California and $1.5 million in Arizona. “We don’t have concrete numbers in mind (for the Ohio campaign) but we know this will be a major priority for the organization as well as other organizations involved,” Shapiro said.
The proposed measure would require the new, yet-to-be appointed Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board to adopt standards to prevent animal cruelty and enhance food safety, HSUS said.
Last year, the Ohio Farm Bureau and other agri-business interests rallied behind State Issue 2 to create the 13-member Livestock Standards Board. It was seen as an effort to head off a campaign by the HSUS to get its own regulations adopted.
Ohioans for Humane Farms said its measure will allow voters to prevent practices in Ohio that include confining animals in tiny cages for months on end and allowing sick and injured animals into the human food supply chain.
The measure would give the Livestock Care Standards Board six years to implement the minimum standards.
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By lala425
February 5, 2010 12:48 AM | Link to this
Every animal deserves the right to sit down, stand up and turn around. I fully support this welfare measure. Take a moment and educate yourself on what actually occurs on factory farms in Ohio. You will be shocked. Don’t just by the corporate agricultural interest’s lies. All they care about is profit at the expense of animal welfare, the environment, and your children’s health!
By 2010
February 2, 2010 7:44 AM | Link to this
The Humane Society of the U.S. is just another name for PETA.,i.e. a bunch of tree huggers who have never worked for a living.
By Quentin
February 2, 2010 12:47 AM | Link to this
Maybe these people should go out and try to make a living farming before telling actual farmers how to do the job. And the “agri-business” claim is a joke since any farmer who is making a living at it HAS to be a business or the local, state and federal IRS people get a bit upset with them.