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More Clarity About Family Farms

Animal Person

In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. I work with the hogs every day, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with gestation crates,” he said. It's also a factory farm.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It accepts completely the hype concerning a California ballot initiative that among other things bans gestation stalls for pregnant sows. Bryan Black President National Pork Producers Council Canal Winchester, Ohio, Oct. 10, 2008 Note from KBJ: Speaking of rhetoric, don't you love "individual housing" for " gestation stalls "?