It seems that when the U.S. agribusiness isn’t exploiting animals it’s doing its best to (1) employ illegal aliens, (2) illegally use tax dollars in defence of factory farming in the democratic process and (3) further abusing the democratic process to defend the indefensible (see here, too).
But there is some good news!
In what the Grumpy Vegan thinks is astonishing news,
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter signed landmark legislation prohibiting two controversial factory farm confinement methods. Specifically, the new law will phase out gestation crates and veal crates—individual cages that confine breeding sows and veal calves.
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SB 201 phases out veal crates within four years and gestation crates within 10 years. It also jumpstarts a process, to be administered by the Agriculture Commissioner, to allow for ongoing dialogue between agriculture and animal welfare groups.
