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Humane Treatment of Farm Animals: Overview and Issues (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised May 9, 2011
Report Number RS21978
Report Type Report
Authors Tadlock Cowan, Analyst in Natural Resources and Rural Development
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

Animal welfare supporters in the United States have long sought legislation to modify or curtail some practices considered by U.S. agriculture to be acceptable or even necessary to animal health. Members of Congress over the years have offered various bills that would affect animal care on the farm, during transport, or at slaughter; several proposals were introduced in the 111th Congress, although no further action was taken on the bills. No bills have been introduced in the 112th Congress. Members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees generally have expressed a preference for voluntary rather than regulatory approaches to humane care. Meanwhile, animal welfare supporters have won initiatives in several states to impose some care requirements on animal producers.