Litigation Anxiety, Oregon’s IP 28, and Cattle That Are Bred to Shut Up | Rising Anxieties

This week Mariann tears through the industry press so you don’t have to: an Animal Ag Alliance exec frets about “brand-busting” without ever explaining what it means, Oregon’s IP 28 gets branded an extremist plot for daring to remove cruelty-law loopholes, a horse vet insists carriage horses basically drive themselves, and ranchers wax poetic about breeding cattle too docile to complain. Plus: France loses millions of birds to a heat wave (measured in tonnage, obviously), BLM guts public input on grazing rules, and Millie Bobby Brown starts a quinoa-vegan controversy nobody asked for.

• Animal Ag Alliance’s own conference notes admit litigation is the movement’s most effective tool — straight from the industry’s favorite worrier.
• Oregon’s IP 28 ballot measure would strip every cruelty-law exception (mostly benefiting animal ag) — critics call it “extremist,” we call it genius.
• A carriage-horse vet’s op-ed argues the horses barely work at all, then spends several paragraphs explaining why the industry desperately needs more regulation
• BLM quietly rewrites grazing rules on 155 million public acres, cutting out everyone except ranchers 
• Bonus: cattle genetics for “docility,” a French poultry heat-wave die-off, and a Millie Bobby Brown quinoa controversy that somehow became a referendum on vegans

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