By WAYNE HERROD

Issue 2 in Brief

Billed as a proposed constitutional amendment to increase food safety, and promote local Ohio farms, Issue 2 is a cruel sham and thinly veiled attempt to put into our constitution a board consisting of the very people who bankrolled it in the first place- the large corporate farms known a factory farms or large CAFO (Confined Animal Feeding Operations).

When one considers that what they are doing is setting up an un-elected and unaccountable board to set standards for livestock production, one would have to question their motives. They have been telling the Farm Bureau and other large farm groups that they must head off the advances of animal rights groups who have in other states such as California and Florida, passed legislation requiring a more humane treatment of animals in “battery cages” and veal production.

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