support for humane farm animal treatment
[Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States.
Image: Michael Kelley for The New York Times]
In the Barnyard Strategist, Maggie Jones for the New York Times details all sides of the story on Proposition 2 -- the measure that will provide farm animals with an incremental improvement in their living conditions.
Proposition 2, co-sponsored by the Humane Society and Farm Sanctuary, the biggest farm-animal-rights group in the United States, focuses on what are considered the worst animal-confinement systems in factory farms. The ballot initiative, which voters will decide on Nov. 4, requires that by 2015 farm animals be able to stand up, lie down, turn around and fully extend their limbs. In effect that translates into a ban on the two-foot-wide crates that tightly confine pregnant pigs and calves raised for veal — a space so small that they can’t turn around. And it would eliminate so-called battery cages where four or more hens share a space about the size of a file drawer.
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