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Political harmony breaks out on livestock care
Gov. Ted Strickland and state legislators are struggling to come up with a balanced budget for the next two years but they’ve found something they can agree on:
Taking care of chickens, cows, sheep, pigs and other animals.
Strickland, a Democrat, and legislative leaders on Monday, June 22, announced support for putting a proposed constitutional amendment on the Nov. 3 ballot that would determine and enforce guidelines for taking care of livestock and poultry.
The goal is to protect food safety and locally produced food. The amendment would create the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board.
“The board will ensure that Ohioans continue to have access to a safe and affordable local food supply and will make our state a national leader n the level of animal care and responsibility,” Strickland said in a press release.
Strickland, House Speaker Armond Budish, D-Beachwood, Senate President Bill Harris, R-Ashland, House Minority Leader Bill Batchelder, R-Medina, and Senate Minority Leader Capri Cafaro, D-Hubbard, all support the proposal, the release said.
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By fafeorne
June 23, 2009 8:43 PM | Link to this
Lets talk Local jobs, local tax dollars and local safe source for our dinner.Keep Ohio’s #1 industry strong. We have to much to lose. This is smart policy.By Mandy
June 23, 2009 2:05 PM | Link to this
We do want to know where our meat comes from and if something like Prop 2 passes in Ohio like it did in California we will be importing all our meat from China and Mexico. And we all know how that has worked out. Where they have no regulations on how they produce their meat and other food items.Agriculture is being a leader in the right way. Not pushing a radical agenda on all people.By star
June 22, 2009 3:35 PM | Link to this
livestock and poultry on factory farms are treated inhumanely and the way poultry is housed, stacked on one another in small cages is disgusting. No where your meal comes from. Thank you Ohio, let’s be leaders on this issue!