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Ohio Ag Groups React to the HSUS Plan to Tell New Animal Care Standards Board What to Do
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 6:44:37 CSTOut-of-state activists have begun their efforts to undo Ohioans' overwhelming passage of Issue 2. Less than three months after Ohioans approved Issue 2 to create the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board (OLCSB), lobbyists from Washington, D.C. have declared they know better than Ohio voters, according to John C. (Jack) Fisher, executive vice president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF).
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), a Washington, D.C. based animal rights lobbying organization, has announced plans to put a measure on the Ohio ballot through which HSUS would dictate OLCSB decisions.
Nearly two-thirds of Ohio's voters this past November supported Issue 2. The board is expected to be operating by this spring, following completion of required legislation and board appointments.
"The enabling legislation hasn't passed; the board hasn't been appointed and the first discussions on what standards Ohioans find acceptable hasn't been held. And yet, the Humane Society of the United States is saying, in effect, Ohioans got it wrong," said Fisher.
Details from a news release issued by the groups starting the drive to gather signatures and put this on the November 2010 ballot are available- click here for that story found here on our website.
We have an audio overview of the situation- with comments from Joe Cornely with the Ohio Farm Bureau. Click on the Listen Bar below for that report with an early read on what Ohio ag groups may be doing to push back against the HSUS this fall.
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