Milk is Milk blog by Alex Avery
The Pew Trust is bankrolling a $2.6 million national study on industrial farming with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Center for a Livable Future. The report will address environmental impacts, animal welfare issues, and the use of antibiotics. Chaired by former Kansas Governor John Carlin, the 18-member commission includes, among others, former Clinton administration USDA Secretary Dan Glickman (who as head of the film industry lobby, has remained conspicuously silent on recent and upcoming anti-ag movies including “Fast Food Nation”); tree-sitter and jailbird Daryl Hannah; $10/pound “natural” bacon purveyor Bill Niman and several scientists who support animal rights. Pew typically seeks to play a “middle of the road” space to bring disparate parties together through these types of initiatives. However, they usually end up simply giving credibility and empowerment to the folks who oppose traditional and conventional agriculture (and animal agriculture). According to the Des Moines Register, “The livestock commission does not have an agenda going in,” said spokesman Ralph Loglisci. “My biggest concern is that industry not be concerned,” Loglisci said.” Industry should indeed be concerned. The Center for a Livable Future promotes “Meatless Mondays” and has ties to the GRACE Factory Farm Project, which helped produce the anti-livestock production movies “Meatrix” and “Meatrix II.” GRACE, the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, is funded at more than $2 million a year by its founder and principal Helaine Heilbrunn Lerner. Lerner has contributed nearly $9 million to GRACE since 2000, primarily through her $66 million foundation the Tamarind Fund. ActivistCash writes that in 2001 Lerner-sponsored funds “jointly gave $900,000 to another Johns Hopkins program– this one tied to the $100-million Humane Society of the United States — for an animal-rights program targeting lifesaving medical research protocols that use animals,” the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing. If Pew truly has no agenda, they should exclude their advocacy partners who have a clear animal rights and anti-animal agriculture bias. on industrial farming with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Center for a Livable Future. The report will address environmental impacts, animal welfare issues, and the use of antibiotics. Chaired by former Kansas Governor John Carlin, the 18-member commission includes, among others, former Clinton administration USDA Secretary Dan Glickman (who as head of the film industry lobby, has remained conspicuously silent on recent and upcoming anti-ag movies including “Fast Food Nation”); tree-sitter and jailbird Daryl Hannah; $10/pound “natural” bacon blog by Alex Avery The Pew Trust is bankrolling a on industrial farming with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Center for a Livable Future. The report will address environmental impacts, animal welfare issues, and the use of antibiotics. Chaired by former Kansas Governor John Carlin, the 18-member commission includes, among others, former Clinton administration USDA Secretary Dan Glickman (who as head of the film industry lobby, has remained conspicuously silent on recent and upcoming anti-ag movies including “Fast Food Nation”); tree-sitter and jailbird Daryl Hannah; $10/pound “natural” bacon