A July 11 New York Times editorial highlights gains made across the U.S. to end some of animal agribusiness' worst abuses. It also denounces the food industry and "fake consumer-advocacy groups" for resisting the enactment of minimal welfare standards for farmed animals.
Citing the landmark agreement reached in Ohio a few weeks ago, and the new egg bill just signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger, the editorial applauds the "consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators" whose efforts are slowly improving the lives of animals on industrial farms.
The Times also voices its vision for a future in which industrial confinement farms are seen as a "short-lived anomaly" in the history of farming. As the editorial declares, "[T]here is no justification, economic or otherwise, for the abusive practice of confining animals in spaces barely larger than the volume of their bodies."
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