Thanks to @AFBFMace (Mace Thornton, American Farm Bureau Federation) we’re getting some information from the Farm Foundation Forum on Animal Welfare as it relates to Production Agriculture. The session this morning in Washington, DC has started as you can see from his Blackberry photo. Here’s who’s on the program:
Paul Shapiro, Senior Director of the Humane Society of the United States
Tim Amlaw, Director of the Farm Animal Program of the American Humane Association
Dr. Jim Reynolds of the American Veterinary Medical Association and a Professor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California-Davis
Dr. David Blandford, Professor of Economics at Penn State University
Bob Krouse, CEO of Midwest Poultry Supply
I will hopefully be able to link you to audio from the presentation later this afternoon. The session is being recorded and will be posted on the Farm Foundation website.
If you’re not on Twitter and can’t follow Mace to see his posts here’s an example of what you’re missing as I write:
1st up David Blandford of PSU @ farmfound forum. Less public pressure for change here than Europe.
Blandford @ farmfound animal care forum. If animal care and practices become linked to human health concerns, it becomes diff story.
Blandford @ FF farm animal forum: who pays? Consumer or producers? EU pays subsidy to meet higher standards.
He’s a master Tweetist!