Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The Golden Valley-based company said it will "favor pork suppliers that provide actionable plans by 2017 to create traceability and end their use of gestation crates within the U.S. pork supply chain.”
Golden Valley-based General Mills recently received praise from The Humane Society of the United States for its position on using pork suppliers that do not use gestation crates. Gestation crates are a form of sow housing commonly used throughout the nation. The National Pork Producers Council says that farmers shouldn't have limited production methods. According to their website, "scientific research has shown that there is no one, single best way to house a pregnant sow." In a statement on the General Mills website about how animals are raised and treated in pork production, the company wrote: General Mills supports the development of pregnant sow housing alternatives. Though we recognize that the development and implementation of …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
A look back at what made headlines for the month of October on Golden Valley Patch.
Here's a snapshot of what readers cared about last month on Golden Valley Patch: 1. Golden Valley Pastor Preaches Against Gay Marriage Amendment Edwin DuBose of Golden Valley's Spirit of Hope United Methodist Church says Minnesota's marriage amendment will only "hurt a select group of people." 2. HSUS President's Visit Concerns Some Minnesota Farmers Wayne Pacelle, HSUS president and CEO, visited Golden Valley's Animal Humane Society to promote his new book. His visit had some local farmers worried that consumers will view common animal agriculture practices in a negative light. 3. Armed Woman Charged with Attempting to Rob Central Bank Police say Golden Valley resident Jaden Young gave a teller a note asking for $1,000. Young had a long …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Wayne Pacelle, HSUS president and CEO, will be at Golden Valley's Animal Humane Society today to promote his new book. His visit has some local farmers worried that consumers will view common animal agriculture practices in a negative light.
Minnesota is home to more than 80,000 farms and currently leads the nation in turkey production. The majority of farmers in animal agriculture today use cages to contain their animals—something that Humane Society of the United States President Wayne Pacelle isn't happy about. "Animals built to move should be allowed to move," Pacelle said, referring to animals that are raised in cages. "Jamming laying hens in barren battery cages where they're shoulder to shoulder is just not right." Today, Pacelle will visit Golden Valley's Animal Humane Society to talk about his new book and address other local animal care issues, like the treatment of animals raised for food and Minnesota's wolf hunt. His visit to a farming state has some animal …
Monday, October 8, 2012
President and CEO of the Humane Society for the United States, Wayne Pacelle, will talk about his new book and other local issues at Golden Valley's Animal Humane Society on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Oct. 9, Wayne Pacelle, the CEO and president of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), will be at the Golden Valley Animal Humane Society to promote his new book, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call To Defend Them. Pacelle is at the helm of the nation’s largest animal rights organization, which, according to their website, is supported by 11 million Americans. While the nonprofit group is headquartered in Washington, D.C., Pacelle finds value in coming to Golden Valley to talk about his book as well as local issues, like the wolf hunt that is set to begin in Minnesota on Nov. 3. “I’m sure almost everyone in Golden Valley would say they love dogs. But wolves aren’t that far from dogs. And now we’re going to be…
Terry Ward
7:26 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Maybe it’s time to stop calling pigs in steel traps and sardine-can chickens and miles of semi-immobile cows ‘farming’. This is not farming. This never was ‘farming’. It is assembly-line food animal production/processing. There are farmers and there are assembly-line food producers. Farming is an honorable endeavor. There is nothing honorable in animals traveling through automated assembly … more ›