Meat Subsidies and Bailouts

Wayne Pacelle’s blog, “A Humane Nation,” is highly recommended. For example, in Pork Industry Bailout Request Full of Fat, he wrote

Does this sound like an industry that should get millions of your tax dollars? The federal government required changes in the banking industry and the auto industry when it gave those industries bailout funds. If our government continues to give money to the pork industry—and we hope they get zero dollars in response to this latest request—the release of future taxpayer funds should be conditioned on the implementation of a written plan to move the industry away from its most reckless practices, as the government has done with other industries.

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