Jennifer Fearing, Humane Society State Director, Pushes Animal Welfare In California:
"I've been working to build bridges. I'm not some crazy Jihad
terrorist," said Fearing, 40. "Let's sit down and work constructively in
the areas where we agree and make animals' lives better in those
areas."
In the Supreme Court last week, the justices
heard an appeal from the National Meat Association, which seeks to block
the 2009 state law that barred the butchering of downer cows. Critical
questions about the law from the justices appeared to side with the meat
industry's position.
The notion that animal welfare
activists know more about caring for livestock than do farmers galls
Jill Benson, the fourth-generation owner of Modesto egg producer JS
West. Since Prop 2 she has fought negative perceptions by taking a
mobile chicken house on the road and placing a live cam in one of her
massive egg barns newly outfitted with bigger cages.
"We
as farmers have always cared for our animals, but we have not done a
good job in communicating to the consumer how we do that," said West,
who is critical of what she describes as HSUS scare tactics. "An animal
activist group can spin it with deplorable video and tell a story that
the consumer believes is common practice, when, in fact, it is one bad
apple."
People supporting R animals can be secretive and deceptive like terrorists, sometimes they are countered by B farmers also being secretive and deceptive or acting as Bi being more transparent.
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