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USDA’s Phony ‘Animal Welfare’ Rule and Other Shenanigans

At a time when organic farmers are going out of business and being gobbled up by corporate agribusinesses by the hundreds,1 draft regulation2,3,4 currently under consideration would legalize factory farm conditions for organic chickens, thereby pushing even more of the smaller organic farmers out. While the proposed rule claims to protect and improve “animal welfare,”… Read More »