Ag Insight - Animal rights or animal well-being?


Where animal rightists, such as PETA, believe that animals are not there to be used as food or by humans in any way, farmers and commodity groups say that society has the right to make proper and humane use of animals if they are treated with care

by JIM DALRYMPLE

Animal welfare has been receiving increased publicity over the past several years and agriculture has been under a terrible attack by animal rightists.