Farm Action, Dairy’s Beef Hustle, H-2A Visas, and Dead Wolves | Rising Anxieties

Mariann Sullivan breaks down why the meat industry is panicking about animal rights groups making common cause with small farmers, how dairy operations turned their unwanted male calves into a billion-dollar beef sideline (20% of the US beef supply and counting), and why the H-2A visa program is a legal nightmare for an industry that runs on exploited labor. Plus: Colorado shoots wolves it released and calls it “euthanasia,” PETA gets reported to a charity regulator for suggesting the royals maybe shouldn’t breed dogs, and the Save Our Bacon Act refuses to die — because nothing dies in Congress, it just waits for a conference committee.

• Farm Action and the anti-factory farming alliance: Why a meat industry insider is terrified that animal rights groups and small farmers are finding common ground — and why that “subterfuge” is happening right out in the open.
• Dairy’s double bind — beef imports and the H-2A visa crisis: Dairy farmers now rely on beef-on-dairy calves for “survival,” immigrant workers produce 79% of US milk, and the Trump administration’s policies are pulling them in opposite directions.
• Colorado’s wolf “euthanasia” problem: Colorado released gray wolves to feel good about wilderness, then shot five of them for doing what wolves do. Now they’re “pulling back” — whatever that means.
• PETA vs. the royals: A complaint to the UK charity regulator claims PETA is too political for suggesting the Prince and Princess of Wales should have rescued instead of bred a dog. Because apparently advocating for animal welfare disqualifies you from being an animal welfare charity.
• The Save Our Bacon Act is not dead: Congress is still trying to overturn California’s Prop 12 through a conference committee, and the pork industry’s obsession with your right to gestation crate pork continues unabated.

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