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He says that shark fisheries in the U.S. harvest sharks sustainably, shark finning has \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/house-bill/5461\">already been banned\u003c/a>, and if the U.S. just withdraws from the shark trade altogether, it'll be harder to encourage other countries to follow the U.S. lead in adopting the same kinds of policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a lot easier to say, 'You should do it this way, see we're doing it and it works,' than it is to say, 'You should do it this way, pay no attention to the fact that we're not involved anymore,' \" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientist Neil Hammerschlag of the University of Miami pushes back on that argument, explaining that the U.S. can only lead by example for countries that have the same resources that the U.S. does, including infrastructure to enforce fisheries management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But the same policies would not work in some of the big fishing countries which don't really have the capacity,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several conservation groups, including the nonprofit Oceana, \u003ca href=\"http://usa.oceana.org/sites/default/files/sharkfinbanrebuttal.pdf\">responded to Shiffman's article against the ban in \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://usa.oceana.org/sites/default/files/sharkfinbanrebuttal.pdf\">Marine Policy\u003c/a>, saying that if the U.S. allows imports of shark fins from countries that don't have sustainable practices, like Myanmar and China, then it is \"complicit in the catch of at-risk species and condoning their lack of finning regulations.\" They say they support the bill because it aims to eliminate U.S. demand for shark fins altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lora Snyder, an Oceana campaign director for responsible fishing and sharks, explains why she thinks the U.S. should just get out of the global fin trade altogether:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Demand for shark fins is one of the primary drivers of population declines of these species,\" she says, drawing a comparison between shark fins and the ivory trade. It is a global problem, she says, which \"needs a global solution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snyder points out that 150 scientists came out in support of the shark fin ban — in \u003ca href=\"http://usa.oceana.org/sites/default/files/usfintradeban_scientistletter_final.pdf\">an open letter of support\u003c/a>, they called shark conservation \"one of the most pressing biodiversity issues today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Science is saying sharks are in trouble,\" Snyder says. \"It's necessary to look at policy solutions that are rooted in science through multiple lenses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelley Clarke is a fisheries management scientist who has studied the shark fin trade in Hong Kong and works with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Like Shiffman, she's skeptical of the idea that the U.S. needs to get out of the trade altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would rather focus on the point of the kill, which is on the water, determining what the fishermen do with the sharks that are caught on their fishing lines, and making sure that the number of sharks that are killed every year in fisheries is at a sustainable level,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works with tuna fisheries to gather better data on how many sharks are caught, which species are most at risk, and how to manage populations through measures like catch limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think at some point we're going to need to draw a line in the sand and say, 'You can't catch any more sharks than this, because we don't believe the populations can keep pace with that,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shark fin trade is being pressured worldwide, even in China and Hong Kong, a global hub for the trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many companies have banned shark fin in their cargo, including shipping giants \u003ca href=\"https://www.wwf.org.hk/en/?15560/Press-release-Sixteen-Top-Global-Shipping-Companies-Have-Committed-to-Stop-Carrying-Shark-Fin-WWF-Hong-Kong-applauds-shipping-companies-effort-to-establish-and-implement--no-shark-fin-carriage-policies\">Maersk\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1913815/shark-fin-imports-dealt-another-blow-shipping\">OOCL\u003c/a>, Hong Kong's \u003ca href=\"http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1979329/hong-kong-airlines-cathay-pacific-and-dragonair\">flagship airlines\u003c/a> Cathay Pacific and Dragonair, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2089229/chinas-biggest-airline-bans-shark-fin-cargo\">China's biggest airline\u003c/a>, China Southern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernest Kao, an environmental reporter in Hong Kong, says these multinational companies are responding to pressure from conservation groups like WildAID and the World Wildlife Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that even the Hong Kong government \u003ca href=\"http://www.news.gov.hk/en/categories/environment/html/2013/09/20130913_181957.shtml\">stopped serving shark fin\u003c/a> at official events, partly citing conservation concerns. After the Chinese Communist Party \u003ca href=\"http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-12/09/content_30837502.htm\">banned shark fin at official dinners in 2013\u003c/a> to fight \"extravagance,\" the trade \u003ca href=\"http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1469412/hong-kong-shark-fin-imports-fall-35pc\">dropped significantly\u003c/a> the following year, though Kao says that drop has mostly leveled off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says traders he has spoken to are not pleased, but know there's not much they can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of these traders actually are feeling the hit,\" Kao says. \"They are expecting demand for shark fin to go down in the long run, so many of them are actually switching to more trade in other seafood or dried marine products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But regardless of a ban, Hammerschlag says that \u003ca href=\"http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/news-events/press-releases/2016/study-finds-shark-fins-meat-contain-high-levels-of-neurotoxins-linked-to-al\">eating shark fins or shark meat is a health risk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One thing that I think potentially people should be aware of when it comes to shark fin ... is that they do have toxins in them,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharks are toward the top of the food web, so they have higher levels of mercury and other toxins that have been linked to degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Congress is once again considering a federal ban on shark fins, used in soup. But scientists are divided about whether a ban is the best way to protect the creatures, which are imperiled worldwide.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1510617139,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1073},"headData":{"title":"Shark Fin Trade Faces Troubled Waters As Global Pressure Mounts | KQED","description":"Congress is once again considering a federal ban on shark fins, used in soup. But scientists are divided about whether a ban is the best way to protect the creatures, which are imperiled worldwide.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Shark Fin Trade Faces Troubled Waters As Global Pressure Mounts","datePublished":"2017-11-13T23:51:16.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-13T23:52:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"122470 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=122470","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/11/13/shark-fin-trade-faces-troubled-waters-as-global-pressure-mounts/","disqusTitle":"Shark Fin Trade Faces Troubled Waters As Global Pressure Mounts","nprImageCredit":"Johannes Eisele","nprByline":"Alan Yu and Paige Pfleger, NPR Food","nprImageAgency":"AFP/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"561900736","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=561900736&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/07/561900736/shark-fin-trade-faces-troubled-waters-as-global-pressure-mounts?ft=nprml&f=561900736","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 07 Nov 2017 17:44:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 07 Nov 2017 17:15:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 07 Nov 2017 17:44:22 -0500","path":"/bayareabites/122470/shark-fin-trade-faces-troubled-waters-as-global-pressure-mounts","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At many Chinese restaurants in the United States, there's a special dish called shark fin soup. It's expensive — a delicacy and status symbol in Chinese culture that's served during banquets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soup is a hotly debated item in both the scientific and political communities, and it's illegal in 12 states, including Hawaii, Illinois and Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Congress is once again considering a federal ban on the shark fin trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two bipartisan bills, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1456\">one in the House\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/793\">one in the Senate\u003c/a>, would make it illegal to possess, buy, sell or transport shark fins in the United States. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5584/text\">House\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3095/all-actions?overview=closed%23tabs\">Senate\u003c/a> politicians introduced similar bills last year, but they didn't make it out of committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Senate bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/793/text\">asserts that\u003c/a> many shark populations are in peril worldwide, and that some fishermen harvest shark fins by finning, a \"cruel practice in which the fins of a shark are cut off\" on a ship at sea, and the rest of the animal is \"then thrown back into the water to drown, starve or die a slow death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X13000055?via%253Dihub\">2013 study\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Marine Policy\u003c/em> estimates that between 63 and 273 million sharks are killed each year, including those killed for their fins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all scientists agree that banning shark fins would be the way to protect sharks. Last month, two marine biologists wrote in\u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X17304384?via%253Dihub\"> \u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X17304384?via%253Dihub\">Marine Policy\u003c/a>\u003c/em> that a ban would not prevent sharks from being killed worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Shiffman, a marine biologist who co-wrote the article, studies sharks at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. He says that shark fisheries in the U.S. harvest sharks sustainably, shark finning has \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/house-bill/5461\">already been banned\u003c/a>, and if the U.S. just withdraws from the shark trade altogether, it'll be harder to encourage other countries to follow the U.S. lead in adopting the same kinds of policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a lot easier to say, 'You should do it this way, see we're doing it and it works,' than it is to say, 'You should do it this way, pay no attention to the fact that we're not involved anymore,' \" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientist Neil Hammerschlag of the University of Miami pushes back on that argument, explaining that the U.S. can only lead by example for countries that have the same resources that the U.S. does, including infrastructure to enforce fisheries management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But the same policies would not work in some of the big fishing countries which don't really have the capacity,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several conservation groups, including the nonprofit Oceana, \u003ca href=\"http://usa.oceana.org/sites/default/files/sharkfinbanrebuttal.pdf\">responded to Shiffman's article against the ban in \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://usa.oceana.org/sites/default/files/sharkfinbanrebuttal.pdf\">Marine Policy\u003c/a>, saying that if the U.S. allows imports of shark fins from countries that don't have sustainable practices, like Myanmar and China, then it is \"complicit in the catch of at-risk species and condoning their lack of finning regulations.\" They say they support the bill because it aims to eliminate U.S. demand for shark fins altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lora Snyder, an Oceana campaign director for responsible fishing and sharks, explains why she thinks the U.S. should just get out of the global fin trade altogether:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Demand for shark fins is one of the primary drivers of population declines of these species,\" she says, drawing a comparison between shark fins and the ivory trade. It is a global problem, she says, which \"needs a global solution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snyder points out that 150 scientists came out in support of the shark fin ban — in \u003ca href=\"http://usa.oceana.org/sites/default/files/usfintradeban_scientistletter_final.pdf\">an open letter of support\u003c/a>, they called shark conservation \"one of the most pressing biodiversity issues today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Science is saying sharks are in trouble,\" Snyder says. \"It's necessary to look at policy solutions that are rooted in science through multiple lenses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelley Clarke is a fisheries management scientist who has studied the shark fin trade in Hong Kong and works with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Like Shiffman, she's skeptical of the idea that the U.S. needs to get out of the trade altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would rather focus on the point of the kill, which is on the water, determining what the fishermen do with the sharks that are caught on their fishing lines, and making sure that the number of sharks that are killed every year in fisheries is at a sustainable level,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works with tuna fisheries to gather better data on how many sharks are caught, which species are most at risk, and how to manage populations through measures like catch limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think at some point we're going to need to draw a line in the sand and say, 'You can't catch any more sharks than this, because we don't believe the populations can keep pace with that,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shark fin trade is being pressured worldwide, even in China and Hong Kong, a global hub for the trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many companies have banned shark fin in their cargo, including shipping giants \u003ca href=\"https://www.wwf.org.hk/en/?15560/Press-release-Sixteen-Top-Global-Shipping-Companies-Have-Committed-to-Stop-Carrying-Shark-Fin-WWF-Hong-Kong-applauds-shipping-companies-effort-to-establish-and-implement--no-shark-fin-carriage-policies\">Maersk\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1913815/shark-fin-imports-dealt-another-blow-shipping\">OOCL\u003c/a>, Hong Kong's \u003ca href=\"http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1979329/hong-kong-airlines-cathay-pacific-and-dragonair\">flagship airlines\u003c/a> Cathay Pacific and Dragonair, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2089229/chinas-biggest-airline-bans-shark-fin-cargo\">China's biggest airline\u003c/a>, China Southern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernest Kao, an environmental reporter in Hong Kong, says these multinational companies are responding to pressure from conservation groups like WildAID and the World Wildlife Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that even the Hong Kong government \u003ca href=\"http://www.news.gov.hk/en/categories/environment/html/2013/09/20130913_181957.shtml\">stopped serving shark fin\u003c/a> at official events, partly citing conservation concerns. After the Chinese Communist Party \u003ca href=\"http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-12/09/content_30837502.htm\">banned shark fin at official dinners in 2013\u003c/a> to fight \"extravagance,\" the trade \u003ca href=\"http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1469412/hong-kong-shark-fin-imports-fall-35pc\">dropped significantly\u003c/a> the following year, though Kao says that drop has mostly leveled off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says traders he has spoken to are not pleased, but know there's not much they can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of these traders actually are feeling the hit,\" Kao says. \"They are expecting demand for shark fin to go down in the long run, so many of them are actually switching to more trade in other seafood or dried marine products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But regardless of a ban, Hammerschlag says that \u003ca href=\"http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/news-events/press-releases/2016/study-finds-shark-fins-meat-contain-high-levels-of-neurotoxins-linked-to-al\">eating shark fins or shark meat is a health risk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One thing that I think potentially people should be aware of when it comes to shark fin ... is that they do have toxins in them,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharks are toward the top of the food web, so they have higher levels of mercury and other toxins that have been linked to degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/122470/shark-fin-trade-faces-troubled-waters-as-global-pressure-mounts","authors":["byline_bayareabites_122470"],"categories":["bayareabites_2998","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_358","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_12575","bayareabites_14181","bayareabites_8989"],"featImg":"bayareabites_122471","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_118205":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_118205","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"118205","score":null,"sort":[1497473797000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"will-fish-get-a-humanely-harvested-label-these-brothers-bet-40-million-on-it","title":"Will Fish Get a Humanely Harvested Label? These Brothers Bet $40 Million on It","publishDate":1497473797,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>When it comes to seafood, we're awash in labels. There are labels to identify sustainable\u003ca href=\"https://www.msc.org/\"> wild\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.asc-aqua.org/\"> farmed\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"http://fairtradeusa.org/certification/producers/seafood\">Fair Trade\u003c/a> fish. We're able to scout the\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/22/520566711/love-canned-tuna-more-grocers-want-to-make-sure-it-was-caught-responsibly\"> canned tuna\u003c/a> section for lingo like \"pole and line caught.\" And plenty of us use Seafood Watch's green, yellow or red color-rating system to help us avoid a side serving of guilt with our fish supper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's another designation many consumers look for in land-based proteins like beef, poultry and pork that is largely missing from the conversation about seafood: humane treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair long-time fishermen — Michael Burns and his brother, Patrick Burns — are trying to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers — now both in their 60s — spent decades fishing the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea for salmon, halibut and crab, finally settling on Pacific cod. But the inspiration for their humanely harvested seafood didn't come from the ocean. It came from their side business — a 400-head grass-fed\u003ca href=\"https://anchorbeef.com/\"> cattle ranch\u003c/a> in eastern Oregon — and from their deep admiration for scientist Temple Grandin and her advocacy of animal welfare and humane slaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fish aren't warm and fuzzy, but they are sentient beings. They experience pain and panic,\" says Michael Burns. \"We had been following Temple Grandin and the better treatment of livestock for years, and then it dawned on me: Maybe we could apply it to wild capture fish,\" while at the same time, creating a safer work environment for the crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That chance arrived last fall, when the Burns brothers launched their new $40 million, 191-foot fishing vessel\u003ca href=\"http://bluenorth.com/home/#/\"> Blue North\u003c/a>. The ship is designed to catch Pacific cod using\u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/groups/cod?o=1680843188,1679989215\"> bottom longlines\u003c/a>. The catch method has earned a green \"best choice\" rating from Seafood Watch, but it can still involve heart-thumpingly dangerous work for the crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/the-boat-1-986300083a509b525f52514344f1d7476fc4c9ae-e1497472721684.jpe\" alt=\"Blue North is a new fishing vessel designed to catch Pacific cod using a Seafood Watch granted catch method. It also utilizes a stun table to render fish unconscious before processing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118206\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue North is a new fishing vessel designed to catch Pacific cod using a Seafood Watch granted catch method. It also utilizes a stun table to render fish unconscious before processing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Blue North)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The image of a crew member with a gaff [fishing hook] hanging over the side of the boat, with ice in their beards, feeds the idea of the rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Bering Sea,\" says Michael. \"But people get hurt out there. We chose to go the route of safety and better conditions for the crew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Burns brothers replicated a design feature they had first seen on a Norwegian fishing vessel called a \"moon pool\" — a round opening in the center of the ship that allows the crew to work inside in a controlled environment, pulling fish up one at a time from the bottom of the boat. The moon pool improved crew safety, but on it's own, didn't address the problem of a thrashing, panicked cod. So the brothers brought in a tool often used in aquaculture to process farmed fish: a stun table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stunning fish to render them unconscious before processing is a method that's been used by companies like\u003ca href=\"http://www.cookeaqua.com/\"> Cooke Aquaculture\u003c/a>, the largest independent salmon farming operation in North America, for the last 15 years. The idea is to prevent fish from stressing and thrashing — an action which can build up lactic acid in the fish's flesh, creating unappetizing gaping in the fillets or affecting the color of the final product. While Cooke Aquaculture uses percussion stunning --- where a pneumatic hammer bops the farmed salmon on the head to knock them out — the same technique didn't work well for wild-caught cod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We first started experimenting with concussion stunning, but the heads of [wild] cod vary too much,\" explains Patrick Burns. So \"we went to [a 48 volt, direct current] electrical stun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Burns brothers say they're the only fishing vessel using this technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Grandin, who inspired their approach, \"I think it's excellent they're doing this,\" she says. \"Fish definitely feel fear.\" Whether or not fish feel pain is still\u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/2106421/fish-have-feelings-does-mean-were-torturing-them\"> vigorously debated\u003c/a>. \"There are still some questions about pain. That's the million-dollar question right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grandin believes it's an area that the seafood industry will be focusing on more going forward. \"Stunning [fish] is going to become a regular practice. People are concerned about it. That's why if you look, there are\u003ca href=\"https://patents.google.com/?q=fish&q=stunn&num=100\"> hundreds of patents\u003c/a> on GooglePatents for stunning fish.\" (We did. She's right.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the launch of a brand new fishing vessel like Blue North doesn't happen every day. Incorporating stunning tables on existing, older vessels could prove tricky. And fishing methods like\u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/interactions/gear/purseseine.htm\"> purse seining\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/interactions/gear/bottomtrawl.htm\"> trawl\u003c/a> fishing — which bring up the catch all at once, in one giant haul — would make it difficult to use a stunning table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the idea of harvesting fish humanely is one that is starting to gain attention from a number of certification groups and retailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Animal welfare issues are definitely on ASC's radar,\" says Contessa Kellogg-Winters, spokesperson for the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, which certifies farm-raised seafood. \"Many salmon farms, for instance, that are taking care to slaughter fish in humane ways\" are making the processing as stress and pain-free as possible, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marine Stewardship Council, which certifies wild-caught seafood, says that while it currently does not have set requirements for the humane harvest of wild fish, it is listening. \"Should humane capture become of heightened stakeholder interest, and of relevance to our mission, we would consider it through our review process,\" says spokesman Jon Corsiglia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whole Foods, which\u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/mission-values/seafood-sustainability/whole-foods-market-stops-selling-live-lobsters\"> stopped carrying live lobster\u003c/a> in stores in 2006 over concerns about humane conditions for the crustaceans, has also included language in its\u003ca href=\"http://assets.wholefoodsmarket.com/www/missions-values/seafood-sustainability/WholeFoodsMarketQS_Farmed-finfish-shrimp_Jan1-2014.pdf\"> farmed fish standards\u003c/a> requiring producers to minimize stress to fish during harvesting, transport and slaughter: \"Fish should also be slaughtered in the most humane way possible. Mechanical or electrical stunning systems are preferred.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mimi Dale Stein, director of operations for Humane Farm Animal Care, whose familiar\u003ca href=\"http://certifiedhumane.org/\"> Certified Humane label\u003c/a> can be found on meat, poultry, egg and dairy products, says the group is actively working on fish standards for several species. Meanwhile, Emily Moose, director of outreach for A Greener World, says it's something the organization is open to exploring as well \"if the demand is there.\" A Greener World certifies livestock and poultry through the Animal Welfare Approved, Certified Grassfed and Certified Non-GMO labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, most of Blue North's cod catch gets fed directly into the commodity market (much of it shipped overseas) where its \"humanely harvested\" pedigree gets left far behind. But the Burns brothers are hoping that other hook and line fishing vessels will join them — and that a \"humanely harvested\" label will become something consumers will eventually see displayed at the seafood counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's our awareness or sensitivity to how the animals are treated,\" says Michael Burns. \"If we extend those sensitivities to cattle, why wouldn't we extend it to fish?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leschin-hoar.com/\">Clare Leschin-Hoar\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a journalist based in San Diego who covers food policy and sustainability issues.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Beef and poultry get labels designating humane treatment; seafood doesn't. Two fishermen want to change that. Their state-of-the-art ship makes fishing safer for crew and minimizes pain for fish.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1497476482,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1194},"headData":{"title":"Will Fish Get a Humanely Harvested Label? These Brothers Bet $40 Million on It | KQED","description":"Beef and poultry get labels designating humane treatment; seafood doesn't. Two fishermen want to change that. Their state-of-the-art ship makes fishing safer for crew and minimizes pain for fish.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Will Fish Get a Humanely Harvested Label? 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These Brothers Bet $40 Million on It","source":"Marketing, Advertising & Labeling","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/marketing-and-advertising/","nprByline":"Clare Leschin-Hoar, \u003ca href=\"\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/nprfood/>NPR Food\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"Courtesy of Blue North","nprStoryId":"532845573","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=532845573&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/14/532845573/will-fish-get-a-humanely-harvested-label-these-brothers-bet-40-million-on-it?ft=nprml&f=532845573","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:25:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:24:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:25:11 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/118205/will-fish-get-a-humanely-harvested-label-these-brothers-bet-40-million-on-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When it comes to seafood, we're awash in labels. There are labels to identify sustainable\u003ca href=\"https://www.msc.org/\"> wild\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.asc-aqua.org/\"> farmed\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"http://fairtradeusa.org/certification/producers/seafood\">Fair Trade\u003c/a> fish. We're able to scout the\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/22/520566711/love-canned-tuna-more-grocers-want-to-make-sure-it-was-caught-responsibly\"> canned tuna\u003c/a> section for lingo like \"pole and line caught.\" And plenty of us use Seafood Watch's green, yellow or red color-rating system to help us avoid a side serving of guilt with our fish supper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's another designation many consumers look for in land-based proteins like beef, poultry and pork that is largely missing from the conversation about seafood: humane treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair long-time fishermen — Michael Burns and his brother, Patrick Burns — are trying to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers — now both in their 60s — spent decades fishing the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea for salmon, halibut and crab, finally settling on Pacific cod. But the inspiration for their humanely harvested seafood didn't come from the ocean. It came from their side business — a 400-head grass-fed\u003ca href=\"https://anchorbeef.com/\"> cattle ranch\u003c/a> in eastern Oregon — and from their deep admiration for scientist Temple Grandin and her advocacy of animal welfare and humane slaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fish aren't warm and fuzzy, but they are sentient beings. They experience pain and panic,\" says Michael Burns. \"We had been following Temple Grandin and the better treatment of livestock for years, and then it dawned on me: Maybe we could apply it to wild capture fish,\" while at the same time, creating a safer work environment for the crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That chance arrived last fall, when the Burns brothers launched their new $40 million, 191-foot fishing vessel\u003ca href=\"http://bluenorth.com/home/#/\"> Blue North\u003c/a>. The ship is designed to catch Pacific cod using\u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/groups/cod?o=1680843188,1679989215\"> bottom longlines\u003c/a>. The catch method has earned a green \"best choice\" rating from Seafood Watch, but it can still involve heart-thumpingly dangerous work for the crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/06/the-boat-1-986300083a509b525f52514344f1d7476fc4c9ae-e1497472721684.jpe\" alt=\"Blue North is a new fishing vessel designed to catch Pacific cod using a Seafood Watch granted catch method. It also utilizes a stun table to render fish unconscious before processing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118206\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue North is a new fishing vessel designed to catch Pacific cod using a Seafood Watch granted catch method. It also utilizes a stun table to render fish unconscious before processing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Blue North)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The image of a crew member with a gaff [fishing hook] hanging over the side of the boat, with ice in their beards, feeds the idea of the rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Bering Sea,\" says Michael. \"But people get hurt out there. We chose to go the route of safety and better conditions for the crew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Burns brothers replicated a design feature they had first seen on a Norwegian fishing vessel called a \"moon pool\" — a round opening in the center of the ship that allows the crew to work inside in a controlled environment, pulling fish up one at a time from the bottom of the boat. The moon pool improved crew safety, but on it's own, didn't address the problem of a thrashing, panicked cod. So the brothers brought in a tool often used in aquaculture to process farmed fish: a stun table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stunning fish to render them unconscious before processing is a method that's been used by companies like\u003ca href=\"http://www.cookeaqua.com/\"> Cooke Aquaculture\u003c/a>, the largest independent salmon farming operation in North America, for the last 15 years. The idea is to prevent fish from stressing and thrashing — an action which can build up lactic acid in the fish's flesh, creating unappetizing gaping in the fillets or affecting the color of the final product. While Cooke Aquaculture uses percussion stunning --- where a pneumatic hammer bops the farmed salmon on the head to knock them out — the same technique didn't work well for wild-caught cod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We first started experimenting with concussion stunning, but the heads of [wild] cod vary too much,\" explains Patrick Burns. So \"we went to [a 48 volt, direct current] electrical stun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Burns brothers say they're the only fishing vessel using this technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Grandin, who inspired their approach, \"I think it's excellent they're doing this,\" she says. \"Fish definitely feel fear.\" Whether or not fish feel pain is still\u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/2106421/fish-have-feelings-does-mean-were-torturing-them\"> vigorously debated\u003c/a>. \"There are still some questions about pain. That's the million-dollar question right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grandin believes it's an area that the seafood industry will be focusing on more going forward. \"Stunning [fish] is going to become a regular practice. People are concerned about it. That's why if you look, there are\u003ca href=\"https://patents.google.com/?q=fish&q=stunn&num=100\"> hundreds of patents\u003c/a> on GooglePatents for stunning fish.\" (We did. She's right.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the launch of a brand new fishing vessel like Blue North doesn't happen every day. Incorporating stunning tables on existing, older vessels could prove tricky. And fishing methods like\u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/interactions/gear/purseseine.htm\"> purse seining\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/interactions/gear/bottomtrawl.htm\"> trawl\u003c/a> fishing — which bring up the catch all at once, in one giant haul — would make it difficult to use a stunning table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the idea of harvesting fish humanely is one that is starting to gain attention from a number of certification groups and retailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Animal welfare issues are definitely on ASC's radar,\" says Contessa Kellogg-Winters, spokesperson for the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, which certifies farm-raised seafood. \"Many salmon farms, for instance, that are taking care to slaughter fish in humane ways\" are making the processing as stress and pain-free as possible, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marine Stewardship Council, which certifies wild-caught seafood, says that while it currently does not have set requirements for the humane harvest of wild fish, it is listening. \"Should humane capture become of heightened stakeholder interest, and of relevance to our mission, we would consider it through our review process,\" says spokesman Jon Corsiglia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whole Foods, which\u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/mission-values/seafood-sustainability/whole-foods-market-stops-selling-live-lobsters\"> stopped carrying live lobster\u003c/a> in stores in 2006 over concerns about humane conditions for the crustaceans, has also included language in its\u003ca href=\"http://assets.wholefoodsmarket.com/www/missions-values/seafood-sustainability/WholeFoodsMarketQS_Farmed-finfish-shrimp_Jan1-2014.pdf\"> farmed fish standards\u003c/a> requiring producers to minimize stress to fish during harvesting, transport and slaughter: \"Fish should also be slaughtered in the most humane way possible. Mechanical or electrical stunning systems are preferred.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mimi Dale Stein, director of operations for Humane Farm Animal Care, whose familiar\u003ca href=\"http://certifiedhumane.org/\"> Certified Humane label\u003c/a> can be found on meat, poultry, egg and dairy products, says the group is actively working on fish standards for several species. Meanwhile, Emily Moose, director of outreach for A Greener World, says it's something the organization is open to exploring as well \"if the demand is there.\" A Greener World certifies livestock and poultry through the Animal Welfare Approved, Certified Grassfed and Certified Non-GMO labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, most of Blue North's cod catch gets fed directly into the commodity market (much of it shipped overseas) where its \"humanely harvested\" pedigree gets left far behind. But the Burns brothers are hoping that other hook and line fishing vessels will join them — and that a \"humanely harvested\" label will become something consumers will eventually see displayed at the seafood counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's our awareness or sensitivity to how the animals are treated,\" says Michael Burns. \"If we extend those sensitivities to cattle, why wouldn't we extend it to fish?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leschin-hoar.com/\">Clare Leschin-Hoar\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a journalist based in San Diego who covers food policy and sustainability issues.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/118205/will-fish-get-a-humanely-harvested-label-these-brothers-bet-40-million-on-it","authors":["byline_bayareabites_118205"],"categories":["bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_12555","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_358"],"tags":["bayareabites_9886","bayareabites_12575","bayareabites_15883","bayareabites_376","bayareabites_10659","bayareabites_10802","bayareabites_15882"],"featImg":"bayareabites_118207","label":"source_bayareabites_118205"},"bayareabites_110680":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_110680","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"110680","score":null,"sort":[1468352153000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-perennial-plate-a-vegetarian-turned-rancher-shares-her-story","title":"The Perennial Plate: A Vegetarian-Turned-Rancher Shares Her Story","publishDate":1468352153,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/172583442?portrait=0&badge=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first film from Season 4 of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theperennialplate.com/\">The Perennial Plate\u003c/a> web documentary series about sustainable food takes place in Del Norte, Colorado. It follows Keri Brandt, a former vegetarian and associate professor of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies at Fort Lewis University, as she shares how she came to terms with raising and eating animals after marrying into a Colorado ranching family. The Off family has been raising cattle for close to 150 years in Southern Colorado, where there’s a long history of ranching.\u003cspan id=\"more-24968\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Perennial Plate was interested in the perspective of a woman and outsider coming into a family with such deep roots and loved the fact that Keri’s story was non-dogmatic. They also liked how falling in love with someone on the “other side” opened her eyes to a type of agriculture that lies somewhere in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keri concedes that she still isn’t sure if we should eat animals, but that it’s hard to eat anything without causing harm, whether it’s vegetables or animals. After she came to live on the ranch and learned more about what it takes to raise animals, she began to understand the complexity of farming. She is now really invested in how we can all move toward causing less harm with the food we eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About The Writer\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDaniel Klein is a chef, activist, and filmmaker living in Minneapolis. He has cooked in the restaurants of Thomas Keller, Heston Blumenthal, and Tom Colicchio. For his current project, Daniel has been documenting his culinary, agricultural and hunting explorations on film in a web series called \u003ca href=\"http://www.theperennialplate.com/\">The Perennial Plate\u003c/a>. Every week he covers a diverse set of sustainable stories from squirrel hunting to community gardens. 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It follows Keri Brandt, a former vegetarian and associate professor of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies at Fort Lewis University, as she shares how she came to terms with raising and eating animals after marrying into a Colorado ranching family. The Off family has been raising cattle for close to 150 years in Southern Colorado, where there’s a long history of ranching.\u003cspan id=\"more-24968\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Perennial Plate was interested in the perspective of a woman and outsider coming into a family with such deep roots and loved the fact that Keri’s story was non-dogmatic. They also liked how falling in love with someone on the “other side” opened her eyes to a type of agriculture that lies somewhere in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keri concedes that she still isn’t sure if we should eat animals, but that it’s hard to eat anything without causing harm, whether it’s vegetables or animals. After she came to live on the ranch and learned more about what it takes to raise animals, she began to understand the complexity of farming. She is now really invested in how we can all move toward causing less harm with the food we eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About The Writer\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDaniel Klein is a chef, activist, and filmmaker living in Minneapolis. He has cooked in the restaurants of Thomas Keller, Heston Blumenthal, and Tom Colicchio. For his current project, Daniel has been documenting his culinary, agricultural and hunting explorations on film in a web series called \u003ca href=\"http://www.theperennialplate.com/\">The Perennial Plate\u003c/a>. Every week he covers a diverse set of sustainable stories from squirrel hunting to community gardens. Follow him on Twitter\u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/perennialplate\">@perennialplate\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://http//www.facebook.com/pages/Perennial-Plate/200850638937?v=wall\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/110680/the-perennial-plate-a-vegetarian-turned-rancher-shares-her-story","authors":["5129","5583"],"categories":["bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_1593","bayareabites_1873","bayareabites_316"],"tags":["bayareabites_12575","bayareabites_9887","bayareabites_8916","bayareabites_108"],"featImg":"bayareabites_110688","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_99432":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_99432","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"99432","score":null,"sort":[1439575107000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-muscle-drug-for-pigs-comes-out-of-the-shadows","title":"Ractopamine: A Muscle Drug For Pigs Comes Out Of The Shadows","publishDate":1439575107,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on Morning Edition:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/08/20150814_me_a_muscle_drug_for_pigs_comes_out_of_the_shadows.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, a few shoppers will encounter a new and unfamiliar phrase when looking at packages of pork: \"Produced without the use of ractopamine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the brainchild of David Maren, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://tendergrass.com/\">Tendergrass Farms\u003c/a>, which sells pork products from pigs raised the \"all-natural\" way, on pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maren first heard about ractopamine years ago, when he was just getting into this business. Maren was talking with his cousin, who raises pigs the conventional way, in big hog houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At one point I mentioned to him something like, 'Well, I know you use hormones to raise your pigs, and that's why they grow so fast,' \" recalls Maren. \"And he said, 'No! Hormones are illegal in pork production in this country. We don't use hormones and we never have.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then his cousin added, \"We do use ractopamine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maren had never heard of this drug. \"It's not something that I hear anybody talking about,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is odd, he says, because ractopamine is a very big deal in the pork industry. Most pigs in America get this drug, because it's extremely effective. It's a \"beta agonist\" and has effects that are similar to adrenaline. It gets a pig to put on more muscle, instead of fat, and also put on weight more quickly. That's money in the farmer's pocket: According to some experts, it adds two or three dollars of income per pig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration says that ractopamine is safe. The agency approved its use in pigs in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drug still arouses some controversy. Safety regulators in the European Union, China, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/11/171727161/why-russia-is-saying-nyet-to-u-s-meat-imports\">Russia\u003c/a> and a variety of other countries have not approved the drug. They \u003ca href=\"http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/1041\">say\u003c/a> there's not yet enough evidence to prove that pork produced using ractopamine is safe to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from any human health concerns, there have been many \u003ca href=\"http://thefern.org/2012/01/dispute-over-drug-in-feed-limiting-u-s-meat-exports/\">reports\u003c/a> of animals suffering when they get too much of the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are pigs that don't get any ractopamine. Organic pork producers definitely don't use it. Natural pork producers probably don't — although Maren says that there's so little awareness of ractopamine use that many big buyers of \"all-natural\" pork don't even bother to ask about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And consumers don't get any information about all that on pork labels. It's never mentioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Maren decided that he wanted to tell the world that his company's pork is ractopamine-free. He thought consumers might pay a little extra for that, the same way that some consumers look for meat that's raised without antibiotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tendergrass Farms is always looking to get as much value for our products as possible,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So last year, he drew up a new label containing these words: \"Our pigs are never fed beta-agonists (like Ractopamine) — drugs widely used as artificial growth promotants in the pork industry today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meat labels have to get approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, though, which is supposed to make sure that labels are not false or misleading. The USDA refused to approve Maren's proposed label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the USDA advised Maren to modify the label to say instead that \"our animals are never fed growth promotants,\" and to include an additional statement that \"federal regulations prohibit the use of hormones in pork.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Derfler, deputy administrator of the USDA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/home\">Food Safety Inspection Service\u003c/a>, which oversees meat labels, told The Salt that Maren's original proposal was confusing. \"Apparently, a judgment was made that the information wasn't being presented in a way that would be understandable to a consumer,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Maren kept pushing, and after hearing that the USDA was reconsidering its position, he submitted a new proposal. The new label states that the product is made with \"no ractopamine — a beta-agonist growth promotant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Maren got official notice that this label had been approved. Maren thinks it will be the first USDA-approved label on pork to explicitly mention ractopamine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he thinks it won't be the last one. \"I imagine that if anyone in the industry is talking about it, then everyone has to talk about it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This does not sound like good news to some conventional pork producers, such as \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/30081851\">David Hardin\u003c/a>, in Danville, Ind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you put a label like that on there, it will immediately make the consumer think, 'Well what is this? It must be something bad,'\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If consumers start to look for ractopamine-free labels, it could lead to pressure on farmers to stop using this profitable drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some farmers are feeling that pressure already, for another reason. One very big buyer of American pork is \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-11/pigs-using-muscle-drug-means-u-s-missing-china-pork-import-boom\">demanding\u003c/a> ractopamine-free pork, and it's a very big customer indeed: the nation of China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some big pork processors are asking farmers to deliver pork the way China wants it. \"If you sell to a processor that either does export to China or could potentially export to China, then you're probably going to see some pressure,\" says Hardin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hardin says that farmers are divided about how to respond to China's demands. Some farmers don't want to abandon ractopamine as a matter of principle. Using it, they point out, means cheaper pork for consumers and less stress on the environment (because pigs on ractopamine don't need as much feed, and don't produce as much manure.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other farmers, he says, are ready to follow the signals of the market. If consumers are willing to pay more for pork labeled \"ractopamine-free,\" that's how they'll raise their pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The USDA is allowing a pork retailer, for the first time, to label products as raised with \"no ractopamine.\" It may lead to pressure on farmers to stop using the muscle-promoting drug.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1439575261,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":974},"headData":{"title":"Ractopamine: A Muscle Drug For Pigs Comes Out Of The Shadows | KQED","description":"The USDA is allowing a pork retailer, for the first time, to label products as raised with "no ractopamine." It may lead to pressure on farmers to stop using the muscle-promoting drug.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Ractopamine: A Muscle Drug For Pigs Comes Out Of The Shadows","datePublished":"2015-08-14T17:58:27.000Z","dateModified":"2015-08-14T18:01:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"99432 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=99432","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/08/14/a-muscle-drug-for-pigs-comes-out-of-the-shadows/","disqusTitle":"Ractopamine: A Muscle Drug For Pigs Comes Out Of The Shadows","nprByline":"Dan Charles, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/nprfood/\">NPR Food\u003c/a>","nprStoryId":"432102733","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=432102733&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/14/432102733/a-muscle-drug-for-pigs-comes-out-of-the-shadows?ft=nprml&f=432102733","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:52:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 14 Aug 2015 04:32:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:39:38 -0400","nprAudio":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/08/20150814_me_a_muscle_drug_for_pigs_comes_out_of_the_shadows.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1053&d=264&p=3&story=432102733&t=progseg&e=432180334&seg=14&ft=nprml&f=432102733","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1432192451-571171.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1053&d=264&p=3&story=432102733&t=progseg&e=432180334&seg=14&ft=nprml&f=432102733","path":"/bayareabites/99432/a-muscle-drug-for-pigs-comes-out-of-the-shadows","audioUrl":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/08/20150814_me_a_muscle_drug_for_pigs_comes_out_of_the_shadows.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1053&d=264&p=3&story=432102733&t=progseg&e=432180334&seg=14&ft=nprml&f=432102733","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on Morning Edition:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/08/20150814_me_a_muscle_drug_for_pigs_comes_out_of_the_shadows.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, a few shoppers will encounter a new and unfamiliar phrase when looking at packages of pork: \"Produced without the use of ractopamine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the brainchild of David Maren, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://tendergrass.com/\">Tendergrass Farms\u003c/a>, which sells pork products from pigs raised the \"all-natural\" way, on pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maren first heard about ractopamine years ago, when he was just getting into this business. Maren was talking with his cousin, who raises pigs the conventional way, in big hog houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At one point I mentioned to him something like, 'Well, I know you use hormones to raise your pigs, and that's why they grow so fast,' \" recalls Maren. \"And he said, 'No! Hormones are illegal in pork production in this country. We don't use hormones and we never have.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then his cousin added, \"We do use ractopamine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maren had never heard of this drug. \"It's not something that I hear anybody talking about,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is odd, he says, because ractopamine is a very big deal in the pork industry. Most pigs in America get this drug, because it's extremely effective. It's a \"beta agonist\" and has effects that are similar to adrenaline. It gets a pig to put on more muscle, instead of fat, and also put on weight more quickly. That's money in the farmer's pocket: According to some experts, it adds two or three dollars of income per pig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration says that ractopamine is safe. The agency approved its use in pigs in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drug still arouses some controversy. Safety regulators in the European Union, China, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/11/171727161/why-russia-is-saying-nyet-to-u-s-meat-imports\">Russia\u003c/a> and a variety of other countries have not approved the drug. They \u003ca href=\"http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/1041\">say\u003c/a> there's not yet enough evidence to prove that pork produced using ractopamine is safe to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from any human health concerns, there have been many \u003ca href=\"http://thefern.org/2012/01/dispute-over-drug-in-feed-limiting-u-s-meat-exports/\">reports\u003c/a> of animals suffering when they get too much of the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are pigs that don't get any ractopamine. Organic pork producers definitely don't use it. Natural pork producers probably don't — although Maren says that there's so little awareness of ractopamine use that many big buyers of \"all-natural\" pork don't even bother to ask about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And consumers don't get any information about all that on pork labels. It's never mentioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Maren decided that he wanted to tell the world that his company's pork is ractopamine-free. He thought consumers might pay a little extra for that, the same way that some consumers look for meat that's raised without antibiotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tendergrass Farms is always looking to get as much value for our products as possible,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So last year, he drew up a new label containing these words: \"Our pigs are never fed beta-agonists (like Ractopamine) — drugs widely used as artificial growth promotants in the pork industry today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meat labels have to get approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, though, which is supposed to make sure that labels are not false or misleading. The USDA refused to approve Maren's proposed label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the USDA advised Maren to modify the label to say instead that \"our animals are never fed growth promotants,\" and to include an additional statement that \"federal regulations prohibit the use of hormones in pork.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philip Derfler, deputy administrator of the USDA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/home\">Food Safety Inspection Service\u003c/a>, which oversees meat labels, told The Salt that Maren's original proposal was confusing. \"Apparently, a judgment was made that the information wasn't being presented in a way that would be understandable to a consumer,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Maren kept pushing, and after hearing that the USDA was reconsidering its position, he submitted a new proposal. The new label states that the product is made with \"no ractopamine — a beta-agonist growth promotant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Maren got official notice that this label had been approved. Maren thinks it will be the first USDA-approved label on pork to explicitly mention ractopamine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he thinks it won't be the last one. \"I imagine that if anyone in the industry is talking about it, then everyone has to talk about it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This does not sound like good news to some conventional pork producers, such as \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/30081851\">David Hardin\u003c/a>, in Danville, Ind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you put a label like that on there, it will immediately make the consumer think, 'Well what is this? It must be something bad,'\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If consumers start to look for ractopamine-free labels, it could lead to pressure on farmers to stop using this profitable drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some farmers are feeling that pressure already, for another reason. One very big buyer of American pork is \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-11/pigs-using-muscle-drug-means-u-s-missing-china-pork-import-boom\">demanding\u003c/a> ractopamine-free pork, and it's a very big customer indeed: the nation of China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some big pork processors are asking farmers to deliver pork the way China wants it. \"If you sell to a processor that either does export to China or could potentially export to China, then you're probably going to see some pressure,\" says Hardin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hardin says that farmers are divided about how to respond to China's demands. Some farmers don't want to abandon ractopamine as a matter of principle. Using it, they point out, means cheaper pork for consumers and less stress on the environment (because pigs on ractopamine don't need as much feed, and don't produce as much manure.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other farmers, he says, are ready to follow the signals of the market. If consumers are willing to pay more for pork labeled \"ractopamine-free,\" that's how they'll raise their pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/99432/a-muscle-drug-for-pigs-comes-out-of-the-shadows","authors":["byline_bayareabites_99432"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_12575","bayareabites_14707","bayareabites_10774","bayareabites_11393","bayareabites_616","bayareabites_11195"],"featImg":"bayareabites_99433","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_98961":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_98961","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"98961","score":null,"sort":[1438746579000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"judge-strikes-down-idaho-ag-gag-law-raising-questions-for-other-states","title":"Judge Strikes Down Idaho 'Ag-Gag' Law, Raising Questions For Other States","publishDate":1438746579,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on All Things Considered:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2015/08/20150804_atc_with_idahos_ag-gag_law_struck_down_future_of_other_state_laws_unclear.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Idaho's so-called \"ag-gag\" law, which outlawed undercover investigations of farming operations, is no more. A judge in the federal District Court for Idaho decided Monday that it was unconstitutional, citing First Amendment protections for free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about the handful of other states with similar laws on the books?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws in Montana, Utah, North Dakota, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa have also made it illegal for activists to smuggle cameras into industrial animal operations. A new North Carolina law goes into effect in January 2016. But now those laws' days could be numbered, according to the lead attorney for the coalition of animal welfare groups that sued the state of Idaho.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a total victory on our two central constitutional claims,\" says University of Denver law professor \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.du.edu/index.php/profile/justin-marceau\">Justin Marceau\u003c/a>, who represented the plaintiff, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, in the case. \"Ag-gag laws violate the First Amendment and Equal Protection Clause. This means that these laws all over the country are in real danger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ag-gag\" refers to a variety of laws meant to curb undercover investigations of agricultural operations, often large dairy, poultry and pork farms. The Idaho law \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/28/284118937/-ag-gag-bill-takes-effect-in-idaho-bans-undercover-filming-at-farms\">criminalized\u003c/a> video or audio recording of a farm without the owner's consent and lying to a farm owner to gain employment there to do an undercover investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other \"ag-gag\" laws require that animal abuse be reported within a specific time frame, a tactic animal activists say is meant to prevent them from gathering evidence of an abuse pattern rather than just a singular event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utah's \"ag-gag\" law is the subject of another federal lawsuit, filed by the ALDF and PETA. Other states' laws go back to the early 1990s when Kansas passed criminal penalties for anyone found to damage or harm an agricultural research facility. Iowa's statute is considered to be the first in a batch of more recent \"ag-gag\" laws. Signed into law in 2012, it was the first to criminalize secretly videotaping a farm without the owner's permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98963\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-400x536.jpg\" alt=\"An image from an August 2012 Mercy for Animals investigation at Bettencourt Dairies' Dry Creek facility in Hansen, Idaho.\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-98963\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-800x1073.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-1440x1931.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-1180x1582.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-960x1287.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from an August 2012 Mercy for Animals investigation at Bettencourt Dairies' Dry Creek facility in Hansen, Idaho. \u003ccite>(Mercy For Animals)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Animal rights groups cheered the decision on the Idaho law this week from \u003ca href=\"http://www.id.uscourts.gov/district/judges/winmill/General_Information.cfm\">U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill\u003c/a>. Winmill found the state's \"Agricultural Security Act\" unconstitutional for criminalizing certain types of speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although the State may not agree with the message certain groups seek to convey about Idaho's agricultural production facilities, such as releasing secretly recorded videos of animal abuse to the Internet and calling for boycotts, it cannot deny such groups equal protection of the laws in their exercise of their right to free speech,\" Winmill writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the animal welfare group Mercy For Animals released graphic\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN_YcWOuVqk\">videos\u003c/a> from an investigation of workers at Bettencourt Dairies' Dry Creek Dairy in Hansen, Idaho, kicking, punching and jumping on cows. In response, the Idaho Dairymen's Association drafted legislation in 2014 to criminalize future undercover investigations. Though Mercy for Animals released another set of videos showing further abuse, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signed the bill into law shortly after passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obviously we're disappointed\" with the Monday decision to strike down the law, says Idaho Dairymen's Association director Bob Naerebout. \"The legislation was designed and crafted to try and protect First Amendment rights while also trying to provide some personal property protection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dairymen's Association will be asking the state to appeal Judge Winmill's decision, Naerebout says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, animal rights activists will likely take the decision in Idaho as a shot in the arm to file more lawsuits against laws in other states and hope for the same outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Judge Winmill's decision is the first step toward restoring transparency in U.S. food production, and we hope that dangerous ag-gag laws enacted in other states will be swiftly struck down as a result of today's decision,\" said Mercy For Animals' Sarah Von Alt in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A judge ruled Monday that an Idaho law criminalizing undercover investigations of farms is unconstitutional. Seven other states have similar laws, but legal experts say they may not stand much longer.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1438747053,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":698},"headData":{"title":"Judge Strikes Down Idaho 'Ag-Gag' Law, Raising Questions For Other States | KQED","description":"A judge ruled Monday that an Idaho law criminalizing undercover investigations of farms is unconstitutional. Seven other states have similar laws, but legal experts say they may not stand much longer.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Judge Strikes Down Idaho 'Ag-Gag' Law, Raising Questions For Other States","datePublished":"2015-08-05T03:49:39.000Z","dateModified":"2015-08-05T03:57:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"98961 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=98961","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/08/04/judge-strikes-down-idaho-ag-gag-law-raising-questions-for-other-states/","disqusTitle":"Judge Strikes Down Idaho 'Ag-Gag' Law, Raising Questions For Other States","nprByline":"Luke Runyon, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/nprfood/\">NPR Food\u003c/a>","nprStoryId":"429345939","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=429345939&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/04/429345939/idaho-strikes-down-ag-gag-law-raising-questions-for-other-states?ft=nprml&f=429345939","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 04 Aug 2015 20:25:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 04 Aug 2015 17:26:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 04 Aug 2015 20:25:25 -0400","nprAudio":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2015/08/20150804_atc_with_idahos_ag-gag_law_struck_down_future_of_other_state_laws_unclear.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1053&d=154&p=2&story=429345939&t=progseg&e=429385911&seg=3&ft=nprml&f=429345939","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1429385926-5a037c.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1053&d=154&p=2&story=429345939&t=progseg&e=429385911&seg=3&ft=nprml&f=429345939","path":"/bayareabites/98961/judge-strikes-down-idaho-ag-gag-law-raising-questions-for-other-states","audioUrl":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2015/08/20150804_atc_with_idahos_ag-gag_law_struck_down_future_of_other_state_laws_unclear.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1053&d=154&p=2&story=429345939&t=progseg&e=429385911&seg=3&ft=nprml&f=429345939","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on All Things Considered:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2015/08/20150804_atc_with_idahos_ag-gag_law_struck_down_future_of_other_state_laws_unclear.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Idaho's so-called \"ag-gag\" law, which outlawed undercover investigations of farming operations, is no more. A judge in the federal District Court for Idaho decided Monday that it was unconstitutional, citing First Amendment protections for free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about the handful of other states with similar laws on the books?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws in Montana, Utah, North Dakota, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa have also made it illegal for activists to smuggle cameras into industrial animal operations. A new North Carolina law goes into effect in January 2016. But now those laws' days could be numbered, according to the lead attorney for the coalition of animal welfare groups that sued the state of Idaho.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a total victory on our two central constitutional claims,\" says University of Denver law professor \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.du.edu/index.php/profile/justin-marceau\">Justin Marceau\u003c/a>, who represented the plaintiff, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, in the case. \"Ag-gag laws violate the First Amendment and Equal Protection Clause. This means that these laws all over the country are in real danger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ag-gag\" refers to a variety of laws meant to curb undercover investigations of agricultural operations, often large dairy, poultry and pork farms. The Idaho law \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/28/284118937/-ag-gag-bill-takes-effect-in-idaho-bans-undercover-filming-at-farms\">criminalized\u003c/a> video or audio recording of a farm without the owner's consent and lying to a farm owner to gain employment there to do an undercover investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other \"ag-gag\" laws require that animal abuse be reported within a specific time frame, a tactic animal activists say is meant to prevent them from gathering evidence of an abuse pattern rather than just a singular event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utah's \"ag-gag\" law is the subject of another federal lawsuit, filed by the ALDF and PETA. Other states' laws go back to the early 1990s when Kansas passed criminal penalties for anyone found to damage or harm an agricultural research facility. Iowa's statute is considered to be the first in a batch of more recent \"ag-gag\" laws. Signed into law in 2012, it was the first to criminalize secretly videotaping a farm without the owner's permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98963\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-400x536.jpg\" alt=\"An image from an August 2012 Mercy for Animals investigation at Bettencourt Dairies' Dry Creek facility in Hansen, Idaho.\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-98963\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-800x1073.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-1440x1931.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-1180x1582.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/08/7_custom-d6aaeda9fbdec7347d5ad9778ad463bb14b022d2-960x1287.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from an August 2012 Mercy for Animals investigation at Bettencourt Dairies' Dry Creek facility in Hansen, Idaho. \u003ccite>(Mercy For Animals)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Animal rights groups cheered the decision on the Idaho law this week from \u003ca href=\"http://www.id.uscourts.gov/district/judges/winmill/General_Information.cfm\">U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill\u003c/a>. Winmill found the state's \"Agricultural Security Act\" unconstitutional for criminalizing certain types of speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although the State may not agree with the message certain groups seek to convey about Idaho's agricultural production facilities, such as releasing secretly recorded videos of animal abuse to the Internet and calling for boycotts, it cannot deny such groups equal protection of the laws in their exercise of their right to free speech,\" Winmill writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the animal welfare group Mercy For Animals released graphic\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN_YcWOuVqk\">videos\u003c/a> from an investigation of workers at Bettencourt Dairies' Dry Creek Dairy in Hansen, Idaho, kicking, punching and jumping on cows. In response, the Idaho Dairymen's Association drafted legislation in 2014 to criminalize future undercover investigations. Though Mercy for Animals released another set of videos showing further abuse, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signed the bill into law shortly after passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obviously we're disappointed\" with the Monday decision to strike down the law, says Idaho Dairymen's Association director Bob Naerebout. \"The legislation was designed and crafted to try and protect First Amendment rights while also trying to provide some personal property protection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dairymen's Association will be asking the state to appeal Judge Winmill's decision, Naerebout says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, animal rights activists will likely take the decision in Idaho as a shot in the arm to file more lawsuits against laws in other states and hope for the same outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Judge Winmill's decision is the first step toward restoring transparency in U.S. food production, and we hope that dangerous ag-gag laws enacted in other states will be swiftly struck down as a result of today's decision,\" said Mercy For Animals' Sarah Von Alt in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/98961/judge-strikes-down-idaho-ag-gag-law-raising-questions-for-other-states","authors":["byline_bayareabites_98961"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_11540","bayareabites_12575","bayareabites_14690","bayareabites_13347","bayareabites_13595","bayareabites_14691"],"featImg":"bayareabites_98962","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_92221":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_92221","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"92221","score":null,"sort":[1421857056000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"chipotles-pulled-pork-highlights-debate-over-sow-welfare","title":"Chipotle's Pulled Pork Highlights Debate Over Sow Welfare","publishDate":1421857056,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/01/chipotle.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/01/chipotle.jpg\" alt=\" Workers prepare burritos at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in New York. The restaurant chain has stopped serving pork in about one-third of its U.S. locations. Photo: Richard Levine/Demotix/Corbis \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers prepare burritos at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in New York. The restaurant chain has stopped serving pork in about one-third of its U.S. locations. Photo: Richard Levine/Demotix/Corbis\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on All Things Considered:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2015/01/20150119_atc_chipotles_pulled_pork_highlights_debate_over_sow_welfare.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/01/16/377760603/chipotles-pulled-pork-highlights-debate-over-sow-welfare\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/19/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a third of all Chipotle restaurants are not serving carnitas at the moment, because the restaurant chain has suspended one of its major pork suppliers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant chain has declined to identify the supplier and the exact reasons for the suspension. In its official statements, Chipotle said only that the supplier was not in compliance with the company's \u003ca href=\"http://www.chipotle.com/en-us/fwi/animals/animals.aspx\">animal welfare standards\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when David Maren heard the news, he had a pretty good idea what the problem was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maren is the founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.grassfedbeef.org/Beyond-Organic-Pork/\">Tendergrass Farms\u003c/a>, near Roanoke, Va. It's an online marketer of meat and organic lard from a network of farmers. The farmers raise their pigs Chipotle-style: The animals get no antibiotics or growth-promoting drugs. They aren't confined inside buildings. In fact, most of them spend their whole life on pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maren says it's not hard to persuade pork producers to adopt part of that package. They don't mind so much cutting out the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are two technologies that many farmers cannot imagine giving up, and these are things that Chipotle does not allow: farrowing crates and slatted-floor housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrowing crates are small pens, measuring about 6 feet by 2 feet, where mother pigs, or sows, are confined for a period that starts just before farrowing, or giving birth. The sows stay in the crates for about three weeks while their piglets are nursing. These pens are different from \"gestation crates,\" which confine a sow during most of her adult life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The purpose [of farrowing crates] is to protect the baby pigs,\" says Maren. Metal walls keep sows from stepping on the piglets. This also means that the sows cannot move much or turn around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/01/ap090710048753_slide-6962e70a8b8da5b2c1a6bcc32b34d52696258fd1-e1421856825108.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/01/ap090710048753_slide-6962e70a8b8da5b2c1a6bcc32b34d52696258fd1-e1421856825108.jpg\" alt=\"A sow nurses her piglets in a farrowing crate in an Elite Pork Partnership hog confinement building in Carroll, Iowa, in 2009. Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92222\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sow nurses her piglets in a farrowing crate in an Elite Pork Partnership hog confinement building in Carroll, Iowa, in 2009. Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Slatted floors, meanwhile, are a basic feature of most standard hog houses. They allow farmers to raise lots of pigs indoors, out of the weather, and keep them clean. Manure drops down through the slats into collection pits. Critics say it is unnatural and inhumane to keep pigs inside on a hard, bare surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An industry source has confirmed Maren's guess. These two issues were the cause of Chipotle's pork problems this past week, after it discovered the supplier was using the methods the company bans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maren is surprisingly conflicted about these rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though his farmers' methods meet — and actually exceed — Chipotle's standards, he says, he's not really sure that these rules make much sense for a large-scale buyer of pork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take farrowing crates, he says. Confining a sow looks inhumane, \"but the alternative is, if you put a picture right beside that of a farmer walking out of his alternative farrowing house with a five-gallon bucket full of dead baby pigs, you have to ask yourself, which is more humane?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or consider slatted-floor housing. It's true that this is not a natural environment for pigs, but it allows farmers to handle large numbers of pigs. What Chipotle wants — pigs living in \"deeply bedded pens\" that they can dig around in — takes a lot more work, space and bedding material, such as straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's all about scalability,\" Maren says. \"They can find a few hundred farmers to do that, and they have. Can they find a few thousand, or tens of thousands, to feed America? I think that's going to be challenging.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chipotle's head of communication, Chris Arnold, says this has not been a problem so far. The current shortfall in pork was a one-time problem with a single supplier, he says. In general, he says, Chipotle has had little difficulty finding pork suppliers who are willing and able to follow its rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnold would not identify the offending pork producer. He says the supplier may simply not have fully understood Chipotle's requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that these are good people who are trying to do the right thing, and if they bring their protocols into [compliance] with our standards, we'd certainly consider having them back as part of our supply network,\" Arnold says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That won't happen quickly, though. It would mean building another style of farrowing pens and new barns to house the pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Wondering why your local Chipotle is no longer serving pork? It's because a big supplier was housing pigs in confined quarters. But there's debate about whether that's really worse for the animals.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1421857056,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":796},"headData":{"title":"Chipotle's Pulled Pork Highlights Debate Over Sow Welfare | KQED","description":"Wondering why your local Chipotle is no longer serving pork? It's because a big supplier was housing pigs in confined quarters. 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The restaurant chain has stopped serving pork in about one-third of its U.S. locations. Photo: Richard Levine/Demotix/Corbis \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers prepare burritos at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in New York. The restaurant chain has stopped serving pork in about one-third of its U.S. locations. Photo: Richard Levine/Demotix/Corbis\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on All Things Considered:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2015/01/20150119_atc_chipotles_pulled_pork_highlights_debate_over_sow_welfare.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/01/16/377760603/chipotles-pulled-pork-highlights-debate-over-sow-welfare\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/19/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a third of all Chipotle restaurants are not serving carnitas at the moment, because the restaurant chain has suspended one of its major pork suppliers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant chain has declined to identify the supplier and the exact reasons for the suspension. In its official statements, Chipotle said only that the supplier was not in compliance with the company's \u003ca href=\"http://www.chipotle.com/en-us/fwi/animals/animals.aspx\">animal welfare standards\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when David Maren heard the news, he had a pretty good idea what the problem was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maren is the founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.grassfedbeef.org/Beyond-Organic-Pork/\">Tendergrass Farms\u003c/a>, near Roanoke, Va. It's an online marketer of meat and organic lard from a network of farmers. The farmers raise their pigs Chipotle-style: The animals get no antibiotics or growth-promoting drugs. They aren't confined inside buildings. In fact, most of them spend their whole life on pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maren says it's not hard to persuade pork producers to adopt part of that package. They don't mind so much cutting out the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are two technologies that many farmers cannot imagine giving up, and these are things that Chipotle does not allow: farrowing crates and slatted-floor housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrowing crates are small pens, measuring about 6 feet by 2 feet, where mother pigs, or sows, are confined for a period that starts just before farrowing, or giving birth. The sows stay in the crates for about three weeks while their piglets are nursing. These pens are different from \"gestation crates,\" which confine a sow during most of her adult life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The purpose [of farrowing crates] is to protect the baby pigs,\" says Maren. Metal walls keep sows from stepping on the piglets. This also means that the sows cannot move much or turn around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/01/ap090710048753_slide-6962e70a8b8da5b2c1a6bcc32b34d52696258fd1-e1421856825108.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/01/ap090710048753_slide-6962e70a8b8da5b2c1a6bcc32b34d52696258fd1-e1421856825108.jpg\" alt=\"A sow nurses her piglets in a farrowing crate in an Elite Pork Partnership hog confinement building in Carroll, Iowa, in 2009. Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92222\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sow nurses her piglets in a farrowing crate in an Elite Pork Partnership hog confinement building in Carroll, Iowa, in 2009. Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Slatted floors, meanwhile, are a basic feature of most standard hog houses. They allow farmers to raise lots of pigs indoors, out of the weather, and keep them clean. Manure drops down through the slats into collection pits. Critics say it is unnatural and inhumane to keep pigs inside on a hard, bare surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An industry source has confirmed Maren's guess. These two issues were the cause of Chipotle's pork problems this past week, after it discovered the supplier was using the methods the company bans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maren is surprisingly conflicted about these rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though his farmers' methods meet — and actually exceed — Chipotle's standards, he says, he's not really sure that these rules make much sense for a large-scale buyer of pork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take farrowing crates, he says. Confining a sow looks inhumane, \"but the alternative is, if you put a picture right beside that of a farmer walking out of his alternative farrowing house with a five-gallon bucket full of dead baby pigs, you have to ask yourself, which is more humane?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or consider slatted-floor housing. It's true that this is not a natural environment for pigs, but it allows farmers to handle large numbers of pigs. What Chipotle wants — pigs living in \"deeply bedded pens\" that they can dig around in — takes a lot more work, space and bedding material, such as straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's all about scalability,\" Maren says. \"They can find a few hundred farmers to do that, and they have. Can they find a few thousand, or tens of thousands, to feed America? I think that's going to be challenging.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chipotle's head of communication, Chris Arnold, says this has not been a problem so far. The current shortfall in pork was a one-time problem with a single supplier, he says. In general, he says, Chipotle has had little difficulty finding pork suppliers who are willing and able to follow its rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnold would not identify the offending pork producer. He says the supplier may simply not have fully understood Chipotle's requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that these are good people who are trying to do the right thing, and if they bring their protocols into [compliance] with our standards, we'd certainly consider having them back as part of our supply network,\" Arnold says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That won't happen quickly, though. It would mean building another style of farrowing pens and new barns to house the pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/92221/chipotles-pulled-pork-highlights-debate-over-sow-welfare","authors":["byline_bayareabites_92221"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34","bayareabites_1807"],"tags":["bayareabites_11539","bayareabites_12575","bayareabites_99","bayareabites_14082","bayareabites_12211","bayareabites_11270","bayareabites_11393","bayareabites_616","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_92222","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_76705":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_76705","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"76705","score":null,"sort":[1390001978000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"congress-blocks-slaughtering-horses-for-meat-in-u-s","title":"Congress Blocks Slaughtering Horses For Meat In U.S.","publishDate":1390001978,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/ap82531835704-cd92b6c710da73e47b950dfe5484b16a089810ce-e1390001423123.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/ap82531835704-cd92b6c710da73e47b950dfe5484b16a089810ce-e1390001423123.jpg\" alt=\"Americans may recoil at the thought of eating horse meat, but other countries feel quite differently, as the sign above this butcher shop in Paris attests. Photo: Jacques Brinon/AP\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76706\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Americans may recoil at the thought of eating horse meat, but other countries feel quite differently, as the sign above this butcher shop in Paris attests. Photo: Jacques Brinon/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/17/263123572/congress-blocks-slaughtering-horses-for-meat-in-u-s\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/17/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a federal ban on slaughtering horses to produce horse meat was lifted several years back, ranchers including \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/17/150833468/plan-to-slaughter-horses-for-human-consumption-is-met-with-distaste\">Rick De Los Santos\u003c/a>, a New Mexico rancher and owner of Valley Meat Co., stepped up to start operations with an aim to export the meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as we've \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/17/150833468/plan-to-slaughter-horses-for-human-consumption-is-met-with-distaste\">reported\u003c/a>, his plans for a horse meat slaughterhouse have hit major roadblocks. There have been lawsuits to stop him and others trying to get into the business. And plenty of stories about the ick factor evoked by the image of butchering a beautiful thoroughbred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, given a bit of language written into the omnibus spending bill that was approved by the Senate on Thursday night, it's seeming more certain that there will be no horse slaughtering on U.S. soil in the foreseeable future. The House already approved the spending measure, which now heads to President Obama for his signature.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The provision bans the funding of U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections at horse slaughter plants. And without inspections, slaughterhouses can't be in business. Game over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Americans do not want to see scarce tax dollars used to oversee an inhumane, disreputable horse slaughter industry,\" Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society argues in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2014/01/congress-urged-to-ban-funding-for-horse-slaughter-011414.html\">press release\u003c/a>. He has been lobbying for a ban on funding for horse slaughter inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have dog and cat slaughter plants in the U.S. catering to small markets overseas, and we shouldn't have horse slaughter operations for that purpose, either,\" Pacelle writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For retiring Rep. \u003ca href=\"http://moran.house.gov/\">Jim Moran\u003c/a> (D-Va.), it's a win he helped usher through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These incredible companion animals don't deserve to be callously slaughtered for human consumption,\" his office wrote in an email to The Salt. \"We fought hard for the past three years to reinstate this ban to prevent slaughter facilities from reopening on American soil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flip side of the argument is that horse slaughter is a practical way to handle the problem of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91142984\">abandoned horses\u003c/a>. Horses can be very expensive to maintain, and when owners can't afford them, it's not unheard of for them to be sent to factories in Mexico and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the argument put forth by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who tried but failed to strike the ban on funding inspections from the spending bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without these facilities, aging horses are often neglected or forced to endure cruel conditions as they are transported to processing facilities across the border,\" Inhofe wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/inhofe-introduces-amendment-to-allow-horse-slaughter-plants\">release\u003c/a>. \"This provision is counterproductive to what animal rights activists are hoping to achieve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Inhofe is not giving up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Thursday night's Senate vote, Inhofe said he and Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OKla.) plan to introduce separate legislation that would lift the ban on funding for horse slaughterhouse inspections. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The omnibus spending bill approved by the Senate on Thursday night contains language banning funding for USDA inspections of slaughterhouses for horses. That effectively stops plans to restart the slaughter of horses in the U.S. to export meat abroad.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1390001978,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":514},"headData":{"title":"Congress Blocks Slaughtering Horses For Meat In U.S. | KQED","description":"The omnibus spending bill approved by the Senate on Thursday night contains language banning funding for USDA inspections of slaughterhouses for horses. That effectively stops plans to restart the slaughter of horses in the U.S. to export meat abroad.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Congress Blocks Slaughtering Horses For Meat In U.S.","datePublished":"2014-01-17T23:39:38.000Z","dateModified":"2014-01-17T23:39:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"76705 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=76705","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/01/17/congress-blocks-slaughtering-horses-for-meat-in-u-s/","disqusTitle":"Congress Blocks Slaughtering Horses For Meat In U.S.","nprByline":"Allison Aubrey","nprStoryId":"263123572","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=263123572&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/17/263123572/congress-blocks-slaughtering-horses-for-meat-in-u-s?ft=3&f=263123572","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:07:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:20:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:07:22 -0500","path":"/bayareabites/76705/congress-blocks-slaughtering-horses-for-meat-in-u-s","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/ap82531835704-cd92b6c710da73e47b950dfe5484b16a089810ce-e1390001423123.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/ap82531835704-cd92b6c710da73e47b950dfe5484b16a089810ce-e1390001423123.jpg\" alt=\"Americans may recoil at the thought of eating horse meat, but other countries feel quite differently, as the sign above this butcher shop in Paris attests. Photo: Jacques Brinon/AP\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76706\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Americans may recoil at the thought of eating horse meat, but other countries feel quite differently, as the sign above this butcher shop in Paris attests. Photo: Jacques Brinon/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/17/263123572/congress-blocks-slaughtering-horses-for-meat-in-u-s\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/17/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a federal ban on slaughtering horses to produce horse meat was lifted several years back, ranchers including \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/17/150833468/plan-to-slaughter-horses-for-human-consumption-is-met-with-distaste\">Rick De Los Santos\u003c/a>, a New Mexico rancher and owner of Valley Meat Co., stepped up to start operations with an aim to export the meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as we've \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/17/150833468/plan-to-slaughter-horses-for-human-consumption-is-met-with-distaste\">reported\u003c/a>, his plans for a horse meat slaughterhouse have hit major roadblocks. There have been lawsuits to stop him and others trying to get into the business. And plenty of stories about the ick factor evoked by the image of butchering a beautiful thoroughbred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, given a bit of language written into the omnibus spending bill that was approved by the Senate on Thursday night, it's seeming more certain that there will be no horse slaughtering on U.S. soil in the foreseeable future. The House already approved the spending measure, which now heads to President Obama for his signature.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The provision bans the funding of U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections at horse slaughter plants. And without inspections, slaughterhouses can't be in business. Game over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Americans do not want to see scarce tax dollars used to oversee an inhumane, disreputable horse slaughter industry,\" Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society argues in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2014/01/congress-urged-to-ban-funding-for-horse-slaughter-011414.html\">press release\u003c/a>. He has been lobbying for a ban on funding for horse slaughter inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have dog and cat slaughter plants in the U.S. catering to small markets overseas, and we shouldn't have horse slaughter operations for that purpose, either,\" Pacelle writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For retiring Rep. \u003ca href=\"http://moran.house.gov/\">Jim Moran\u003c/a> (D-Va.), it's a win he helped usher through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These incredible companion animals don't deserve to be callously slaughtered for human consumption,\" his office wrote in an email to The Salt. \"We fought hard for the past three years to reinstate this ban to prevent slaughter facilities from reopening on American soil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flip side of the argument is that horse slaughter is a practical way to handle the problem of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91142984\">abandoned horses\u003c/a>. Horses can be very expensive to maintain, and when owners can't afford them, it's not unheard of for them to be sent to factories in Mexico and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the argument put forth by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who tried but failed to strike the ban on funding inspections from the spending bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without these facilities, aging horses are often neglected or forced to endure cruel conditions as they are transported to processing facilities across the border,\" Inhofe wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/inhofe-introduces-amendment-to-allow-horse-slaughter-plants\">release\u003c/a>. \"This provision is counterproductive to what animal rights activists are hoping to achieve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Inhofe is not giving up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Thursday night's Senate vote, Inhofe said he and Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OKla.) plan to introduce separate legislation that would lift the ban on funding for horse slaughterhouse inspections. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/76705/congress-blocks-slaughtering-horses-for-meat-in-u-s","authors":["byline_bayareabites_76705"],"categories":["bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_12575","bayareabites_9887","bayareabites_11722","bayareabites_11447","bayareabites_11259","bayareabites_12950","bayareabites_11802","bayareabites_11537","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_8913","bayareabites_12951"],"featImg":"bayareabites_76706","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_75751":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_75751","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"75751","score":null,"sort":[1388164469000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"2013-was-the-year-bills-to-criminalize-animal-cruelty-videos-failed","title":"2013 Was The Year Bills To Criminalize Animal Cruelty Videos Failed","publishDate":1388164469,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_75752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/pigs-fffe58b09c339d9d1e979a71f2aa749b25bbf20f.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/pigs-fffe58b09c339d9d1e979a71f2aa749b25bbf20f.jpg\" alt=\"A Humane Society investigation of a Wyoming pig breeding facility to the introduction of an ag-gag bill in Wyoming, which eventually failed. Photo: Courtesy of Humane Society of the U.S.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75752\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Humane Society investigation of a Wyoming pig breeding facility to the introduction of an ag-gag bill in Wyoming, which eventually failed. Photo: Courtesy of Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/19/255549796/2013-was-the-year-every-new-ag-gag-bill-failed\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/27/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past year was a busy one for the animal welfare activists who've turned their hidden cameras on confinement facilities where huge numbers of food animals are raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Livestock producers — and the policymakers they influence — were just as busy trying to make it illegal for activists to enter these facilities undercover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You see, for the last several years, groups like the Humane Society of the U.S. and Mercy for Animals have caught some workers abusing animals red-handed. The groups say this abuse happens regularly out of view of the public and the law, and to expose it, they have to send in activists posing as ordinary workers, armed with video cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shocking videos made public have rankled animal agriculture groups, and strained their relationships with retailers. They \u003ca href=\"http://nationalhogfarmer.com/blog/when-bad-videos-happen-good-pork-producers\">typically respond\u003c/a> that the videos aren't representative — they merely show one employee, doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. Industry groups, in turn, have pressured legislators in several states to introduce measures intended to protect them from these kinds of incursions into their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The colloquial term for this legislation is ag-gag. It refers to laws that make it illegal to photograph or shoot videos of internal operations of farms where food animals are being raised. And awareness of such laws is growing: \"Ag gag\" was featured as one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/opinion/sunday/a-wordnado-of-words-in-2013.html\">words of the year\u003c/a> in Sunday's \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three states signed ag-gag bill into law in 2011 and 2012, setting new legal precedents. This year, a flurry of legislation — 15 ag-gag bills — was introduced in 11 states, but interestingly, \u003cem>not a single one passed.\u003c/em> (Indeed, in some states, more than one measure was introduced: Tennessee and Arkansas each had two, while Indiana had three.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What explains the failure of these bills, which either didn't get enough votes or were vetoed by governors? For details, we turned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/about/leadership/subject_experts/matthew-dominguez.html\">Matt Dominguez\u003c/a>, who spent 2013 traveling around the U.S. fighting various ag-gag bills for the Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dominguez, ag-gag laws failed this year because of a large and broad coalition opposing them that tapped its grass-roots network to hammer legislators with emails, phone calls and online campaigns. The coalition included animal welfare groups, of course, but also environmental groups like Food and Water Watch, and organizations that advocate for a free press, like the National Press Photographers Association, and legal issues, like the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition also had public opinion on its side. A 2012 nationwide \u003ca href=\"http://www.aspca.org/about-us/press-releases/aspca-research-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-support-investigations-expose\">poll\u003c/a> commissioned by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals showed that 71 percent of Americans support undercover investigative efforts by animal welfare organizations to expose animal abuse on industrial farms, and 64 percent oppose making such efforts illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another advantage was high-profile media coverage from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/us/taping-of-farm-cruelty-is-becoming-the-crime.html?_r=0\">The New York Times\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/06/ag-gag-laws-mowmar-farms\"> Mother Jones\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists?src=longreads\">Rolling Stone\u003c/a>, plus dozens of editorials in newspapers condemning ag-gag, says Dominguez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the vociferous opposition, the trend seems to be towards more bills, not fewer, especially if investigations continue to paint damaging portraits of the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do an investigation that shows cruelty, and a legislator introduces one of these bills to criminalize investigations themselves,\" says Dominguez. He cited the example of the 2012 HSUS \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2012/05/wyoming_pig_investigation_050812.html#id=album-142&num=content-2668\">investigation\u003c/a> that showed workers throwing piglets at Wyoming Premium Farms, which prompted Wyoming state legislator Sue Wallis to introduce an ag-gag bill in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, says Dominguez, lawmakers are trying to find new ways to keep activists off the farm. The original ag-gag bills made it illegal to take photos and video, but now some states are instead attempting to pass mandatory reporting bills. They would require anyone who witnesses and videotapes abuse on a farm to turn recordings over to the state within 24 to 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like it would be pro-animal, but it means you can't document a series of abuses,\" Dominguez says. \"And then the industry can say, 'This is an isolated incident.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/04/11/a-legal-twist-in-the-effort-to-ban-cameras-from-livestock-plants/\">reported\u003c/a> earlier in the year, California introduced a measure that would have required that anyone who videotapes or records animal abuse turn over a copy of the evidence to police within 48 hours. It failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what might next year hold for animal activists fighting ag-gag laws?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominguez expects that 2014 will be a lot like 2013, and that 10 to 15 bills will come back in various states, since many legislators work on a two-year cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They'll likely come back in the states where we've been fighting, and in new states,\" says Dominguez. \"Lawmakers view it that they were beat by animal rights groups. They'll tweak the bills, make them more like animal protection bills to dupe the public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This year, 15 bills in 11 states attempted to make undercover videos on farms illegal. Not a single one passed. Activists say a broad-based coalition that tapped the grass-roots concern for animal welfare helped defeat the measures.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1388164469,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":855},"headData":{"title":"2013 Was The Year Bills To Criminalize Animal Cruelty Videos Failed | KQED","description":"This year, 15 bills in 11 states attempted to make undercover videos on farms illegal. Not a single one passed. 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Photo: Courtesy of Humane Society of the U.S.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75752\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Humane Society investigation of a Wyoming pig breeding facility to the introduction of an ag-gag bill in Wyoming, which eventually failed. Photo: Courtesy of Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/19/255549796/2013-was-the-year-every-new-ag-gag-bill-failed\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/27/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past year was a busy one for the animal welfare activists who've turned their hidden cameras on confinement facilities where huge numbers of food animals are raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Livestock producers — and the policymakers they influence — were just as busy trying to make it illegal for activists to enter these facilities undercover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You see, for the last several years, groups like the Humane Society of the U.S. and Mercy for Animals have caught some workers abusing animals red-handed. The groups say this abuse happens regularly out of view of the public and the law, and to expose it, they have to send in activists posing as ordinary workers, armed with video cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shocking videos made public have rankled animal agriculture groups, and strained their relationships with retailers. They \u003ca href=\"http://nationalhogfarmer.com/blog/when-bad-videos-happen-good-pork-producers\">typically respond\u003c/a> that the videos aren't representative — they merely show one employee, doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. Industry groups, in turn, have pressured legislators in several states to introduce measures intended to protect them from these kinds of incursions into their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The colloquial term for this legislation is ag-gag. It refers to laws that make it illegal to photograph or shoot videos of internal operations of farms where food animals are being raised. And awareness of such laws is growing: \"Ag gag\" was featured as one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/opinion/sunday/a-wordnado-of-words-in-2013.html\">words of the year\u003c/a> in Sunday's \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three states signed ag-gag bill into law in 2011 and 2012, setting new legal precedents. This year, a flurry of legislation — 15 ag-gag bills — was introduced in 11 states, but interestingly, \u003cem>not a single one passed.\u003c/em> (Indeed, in some states, more than one measure was introduced: Tennessee and Arkansas each had two, while Indiana had three.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What explains the failure of these bills, which either didn't get enough votes or were vetoed by governors? For details, we turned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/about/leadership/subject_experts/matthew-dominguez.html\">Matt Dominguez\u003c/a>, who spent 2013 traveling around the U.S. fighting various ag-gag bills for the Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dominguez, ag-gag laws failed this year because of a large and broad coalition opposing them that tapped its grass-roots network to hammer legislators with emails, phone calls and online campaigns. The coalition included animal welfare groups, of course, but also environmental groups like Food and Water Watch, and organizations that advocate for a free press, like the National Press Photographers Association, and legal issues, like the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition also had public opinion on its side. A 2012 nationwide \u003ca href=\"http://www.aspca.org/about-us/press-releases/aspca-research-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-support-investigations-expose\">poll\u003c/a> commissioned by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals showed that 71 percent of Americans support undercover investigative efforts by animal welfare organizations to expose animal abuse on industrial farms, and 64 percent oppose making such efforts illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another advantage was high-profile media coverage from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/us/taping-of-farm-cruelty-is-becoming-the-crime.html?_r=0\">The New York Times\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/06/ag-gag-laws-mowmar-farms\"> Mother Jones\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists?src=longreads\">Rolling Stone\u003c/a>, plus dozens of editorials in newspapers condemning ag-gag, says Dominguez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the vociferous opposition, the trend seems to be towards more bills, not fewer, especially if investigations continue to paint damaging portraits of the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do an investigation that shows cruelty, and a legislator introduces one of these bills to criminalize investigations themselves,\" says Dominguez. He cited the example of the 2012 HSUS \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2012/05/wyoming_pig_investigation_050812.html#id=album-142&num=content-2668\">investigation\u003c/a> that showed workers throwing piglets at Wyoming Premium Farms, which prompted Wyoming state legislator Sue Wallis to introduce an ag-gag bill in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, says Dominguez, lawmakers are trying to find new ways to keep activists off the farm. The original ag-gag bills made it illegal to take photos and video, but now some states are instead attempting to pass mandatory reporting bills. They would require anyone who witnesses and videotapes abuse on a farm to turn recordings over to the state within 24 to 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like it would be pro-animal, but it means you can't document a series of abuses,\" Dominguez says. \"And then the industry can say, 'This is an isolated incident.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/04/11/a-legal-twist-in-the-effort-to-ban-cameras-from-livestock-plants/\">reported\u003c/a> earlier in the year, California introduced a measure that would have required that anyone who videotapes or records animal abuse turn over a copy of the evidence to police within 48 hours. It failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what might next year hold for animal activists fighting ag-gag laws?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominguez expects that 2014 will be a lot like 2013, and that 10 to 15 bills will come back in various states, since many legislators work on a two-year cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They'll likely come back in the states where we've been fighting, and in new states,\" says Dominguez. \"Lawmakers view it that they were beat by animal rights groups. They'll tweak the bills, make them more like animal protection bills to dupe the public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/75751/2013-was-the-year-bills-to-criminalize-animal-cruelty-videos-failed","authors":["byline_bayareabites_75751"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_11540","bayareabites_11539","bayareabites_12575","bayareabites_9887","bayareabites_99","bayareabites_12850","bayareabites_8914","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_75759","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_72302":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_72302","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"72302","score":null,"sort":[1381943655000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"banksys-latest-work-takes-on-the-meat-industry-with-puppets","title":"Banksy's Latest Work Takes On The Meat Industry ... With Puppets","publishDate":1381943655,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>[youtube //www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIz7mEJOeA]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by Maanvi Singh, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/16/235334278/banksys-latest-work-takes-on-the-meat-industry-with-puppets\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/16/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banksy, the mysterious British graffiti artist known for his satirical work, has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.banksy.co.uk/\">making mischief\u003c/a> around New York City this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His latest artwork makes a statement about the meat industry, or lost innocence — or something like that. In any case, it'll certainly make you stop and look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72308\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/banksy-animalrights.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/banksy-animalrights.jpg\" alt=\"Banksy's "Sirens of the Lambs" started its tour of New York City in — naturally — the Meatpacking District. Image: BanksyNY/Youtube\" width=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72308\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banksy's \"Sirens of the Lambs\" started its tour of New York City in — naturally — the Meatpacking District. Image: BanksyNY/Youtube\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's called \u003ca href=\"http://www.banksy.co.uk/2013/10/11/meatpacking-district\">\"Sirens of the Lambs\u003c/a>\" and it features a bunch of cuddly puppet animals peeking out of a truck, squealing (or at least squeaking) with fear. The truck, labeled \"Farm Fresh Meats,\" started its rounds in (what else?) the Meatpacking District, and it's set to tour the city for the next week and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece is somehow hilarious and horrifying at the same time, like an episode of \u003cem>The Muppets\u003c/em> gone terribly wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One look into those animals' unblinking glass eyes will obliterate any fond childhood memories of playing with Teddy. And judging from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WDIz7mEJOeA\">video\u003c/a> posted on the artist's website, the installation has already been terrorizing children around the city (one kid is shown screaming as he runs away, and the closing shot is of an inconsolable baby).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-BluFK9S1I8\">audio guide\u003c/a> that accompanies the piece (accessed via an 800 number printed on the truck) seems to have a good sense of humor. The narrator starts off by saying, \"This is a piece of sculpture art, and I know what you're thinking: Isn't it a bit — subtle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audio guide also explains that the animals are controlled by four mime artists, who sit inside the truck. Banksy apparently used to work at a butcher shop, which might have inspired the sculpture art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The street artist's latest piece is called \"Sirens of the Lambs,\" and it features a bunch of cuddly puppet animals peeking out of a slaughterhouse truck, squealing with fear. The truck is set to tour around New York City for the next week and a half.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1381943655,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":319},"headData":{"title":"Banksy's Latest Work Takes On The Meat Industry ... 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The truck, labeled \"Farm Fresh Meats,\" started its rounds in (what else?) the Meatpacking District, and it's set to tour the city for the next week and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece is somehow hilarious and horrifying at the same time, like an episode of \u003cem>The Muppets\u003c/em> gone terribly wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One look into those animals' unblinking glass eyes will obliterate any fond childhood memories of playing with Teddy. And judging from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WDIz7mEJOeA\">video\u003c/a> posted on the artist's website, the installation has already been terrorizing children around the city (one kid is shown screaming as he runs away, and the closing shot is of an inconsolable baby).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-BluFK9S1I8\">audio guide\u003c/a> that accompanies the piece (accessed via an 800 number printed on the truck) seems to have a good sense of humor. The narrator starts off by saying, \"This is a piece of sculpture art, and I know what you're thinking: Isn't it a bit — subtle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audio guide also explains that the animals are controlled by four mime artists, who sit inside the truck. 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