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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2011/08/07/reasonable-outcome.html
Reasonable outcome
Livestock-care standards will head off bigger fight
Sunday August 7, 2011 6:48 AM
With approval by the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review on Monday, new rules to improve Ohio’s livestock-care standards have cleared a final hurdle.
That’s good news for the calves, sows and hens that will be raised under more-humane conditions, as well as for Ohio’s food industry, which will be better aligned with changing consumer demand.
An eventual ban on veal crates was a sticking point for the rules, which were recommended by the Livestock Care Standards Board with input from farmers, agriculture-school professionals, animal-rights activists and the public.
Although some veal farmers tried to derail the ban on pens that virtually immobilize veal calves, claiming it would drive small farmers out of business, veal-industry representatives supported it, because they know consumers increasingly demand humanely raised food.
Approving the rules has another significant benefit for Ohio farmers: It makes the Humane Society of the United States less likely to bring a statewide issue to the ballot that would impose rules that might be far less reasonable.
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Hardly reasonable....just more of the same denial and feel good messaging to send everyone back into their comfortable animal consumption behaviors. More will die than ever as the proof is the more "humane" the laws are, the more people are OK with consuming them....and the consumption levels rise once more, to everyone's greater peril. Correction in the above article: "Animal rights activists" didn't sanction this "deal", animal welfarists or protectionists did. As I've pointed out before there is a disparate chasm between the "rights" and "welfare" missions.
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