• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / Agriculture / Florida iniative worries Iowa Farm Bureau

Florida iniative worries Iowa Farm Bureau

November 12, 2002 By admin

Leaders of the Iowa Farm Bureau are a bit concerned over a ballot initiative that passed in Florida a week ago, banning the use of a type of hog confinement. Mindy Larson-Poldberg, the bureau’s national affairs director, says animal rights groups got the issue on the ballot and voters approved prohibition of gestation crates and tethers on pregnant hogs.Larson-Pohlberg says those crates are used by many Iowa farmers and they’re not inhumane.Gestation crates are approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association. The crates minimize aggression and competition between sows, they protect hogs from health issues and provide each animal with less stress and allow them daily access to the right amounts of food and water. Larson-Pohlberg says Florida voters may have been led astray by the language on the ballot initiative itself since it made it sound like the use of gestation crates was inhumane, when the A-V-M-A has actually approved of their use for many reasons.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Agriculture

Featured Stories

Exhibit features lesser known works of Grant Wood

Testing finds 21 new CWD cases in deer

It may become a crime in Iowa to use fake urine in workplace drug tests

February trending 18 degrees below average temperature

Iowa House Education Committee votes to end tenure at UI, ISU, UNI

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Iowa’s Jack Nunge lost for the season

Key stretch begins for #9 Iowa

Drake’s Roman Penn lost for the season

Drake’s DeVries named to Naismith watch list

State wrestling opens with limited attendance

More Sports

eNews and Updates

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Archives

Copyright © 2021 ยท Learfield News & Ag, LLC