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Ranchers and Farmers Use Social Media Proactively to Push Back Against Foes of Animal Agriculture
Tue, 24 May 2011 21:17:13 CDT
In today's Beef Buzz, Kay Johnson-Smith, Executive Director for the Animal Agriculture Alliance, gives us even more insight into why anti-agriculture organizations are taking on animal agriculture. Johnson-Smith also gives us ideas on how to push back and take a stand against these campaigns.
Johnson-Smith says one way for farmers and ranchers to take a stand is to tell their own agriculture story through the use of pictures and video. However, besides pictures and video, farmers and ranchers need to be involved in the legislative process. It is important to discuss bills that can have a negative effect on agriculture with legislators.
It is also important for farmers and ranchers to make the public aware that animal welfare and animal care is not the focus of the anti-agriculture campaigns, Johnson-Smith says.
The Beef Buzz is a regular feature heard on radio stations around the state on the Radio Oklahoma Network- but is also a regular audio feature found on this website as well. Click on the listen bar below for today's show- and check out our archives for older Beef Buzz shows covering the gamut of the beef cattle industry today.
Click on the listen bar below to hear the rest of Kay Johnson-Smith's thoughts on the fight against anti-agriculture.
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