Well Issue 2 in Ohio passed- of course. Well proponents of Issue 2 made it sound like it was a beneficial to the animals. But actually what it does is allow the factory farmers police themselves. Yeah, right. Like that is going to happen.
Read Greg Baur’s [President and Co-founder of Farm Sanctuary] blog on the issue.
Ironically, the intention of Issue 2 is to prevent meaningful reform by allowing industry officials to define what is “humane.” Agribusiness brought Issue 2 to the ballot in the hopes of heading off legislation proposed by humane advocates to ban some of the cruelest forms of factory farming confinement: veal crates, gestation crates and battery cages. Despite the industry’s effort, change is coming. It has been said that the only constant is change, and this applies in Ohio just as it applies everywhere else.
