Sokara
February 21st, 2006, 03:03 AM
Something to be happy about - articles like this don't get published in newspapers everyday!
Arizona voters will be asked this fall to weigh in on a ballot measure called the Humane Treatment of Farm Animals Act, which is now in the signature-gathering stage but, by November, is certain to be one of our livelier election-year debates.
The initiative, modeled on a reform passed by Florida voters, would prohibit the factory-farming practice of confining pigs and veal calves in crates so small that the animals cannot even turn around or extend their limbs.
Factory farming, in general, is no one's favorite subject, and the details here are particularly unpleasant to think about: masses of creatures enduring lives of unrelieved confinement and deprivation. But if you're in need of reasons to sign the petitions and vote for the initiative, they are easy to find, and our discomfort with the subject is a good place to start.
Read More (http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0219scully0219.html)
This makes me so happy because the ranchers here are already being jerks, and this is a slap in the face for them. Plus, these initiatives are more than welfare measures - the generate tons of publicity about factory farming.
Arizona voters will be asked this fall to weigh in on a ballot measure called the Humane Treatment of Farm Animals Act, which is now in the signature-gathering stage but, by November, is certain to be one of our livelier election-year debates.
The initiative, modeled on a reform passed by Florida voters, would prohibit the factory-farming practice of confining pigs and veal calves in crates so small that the animals cannot even turn around or extend their limbs.
Factory farming, in general, is no one's favorite subject, and the details here are particularly unpleasant to think about: masses of creatures enduring lives of unrelieved confinement and deprivation. But if you're in need of reasons to sign the petitions and vote for the initiative, they are easy to find, and our discomfort with the subject is a good place to start.
Read More (http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0219scully0219.html)
This makes me so happy because the ranchers here are already being jerks, and this is a slap in the face for them. Plus, these initiatives are more than welfare measures - the generate tons of publicity about factory farming.