Congressional Republicans are seeking to block state restrictions on how farm animals are raised, saying states shouldn’t be able to tell farmers in other states how to produce their livestock.
Many people support the concept of letting farmers voluntarily invest their own dollars in research and promotion. A smaller, but more vocal subset of people, is passionately opposed to checkoffs.
/PRNewswire/ Today, animal welfare groups commended a bipartisan group of U.S. senators for reintroducing the Save America s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act (S..
Critics of commodity checkoffs are making a fresh run at imposing new restrictions on the programs, including a prohibition on contracting research and promotion work out to organizations that lobby Congress or federal agencies.
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