How Humane Can We Be?

A FOOD CHAIN RELEASE FROM METROFARM.COM

We have learned to raise more animals in less space by confining them in ever-smaller cages. Some now say we are confining animals in cages that are simply too small. This leads us to ask: “How small is too small?”

This Saturday at 9am Pacific, the Food Chain with Michael Olson hosts Anita Mengels from Californians for Sound Farm Animal Agriculture and Paul Shapiro from the Humane Society’s Factory Farming Project for a conversation about the economies and ethics of confining farm animals.

Log on the Food Chain page at www.metrofarm.com to listen on your radio, computer or IPOD.

Topics include the evolution of animal agriculture from farm to factory; the ethics of raising animals in cages; and who, or what, should govern the size of those cages.
Question of the Week: How humane can we be to farm animals?