from: farmworldonline.com
“Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed legislation last week crafted by animal rights activists and industry groups that said they wanted to avoid an animal rights ballot measure.
Granholm signed House Bill 5127, which is directed at poultry, veal and pork producers and is meant to provide more living space for individual animals. Animal rights group Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), which had threatened to start a farm animal rights ballot drive if industry didn’t go along with the bill, was pleased with the result.
Although industry groups were thought to be against the legislation, representatives of those groups were muted in their criticisms of it. A Michigan Farm Bureau representative, for example, stated that it supported the bill because poultry, pork and veal producers were on board with it.
These groups were on board with it, they said, for reasons that included fear of a ballot drive, the long time period between passage of the bill and implementation and because veal producers are already changing housing arrangements for their animals.”
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