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Article: Animal Welfare Approved Farmer Jude Becker Featured on Oprah.
- Article from:
- Agriculture Week
- Article date:
- October 30, 2008
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Animal Welfare Approved pig farmer, Jude Becker, was featured on a segment of Oprah's show yesterday, "How We Treat the Animals We Eat." Spurred by the upcoming vote on California's Proposition 2, which would legislate increased cage sizes for laying hens, gestating sows and veal calves, the segment demonstrated the contrast between two different ways of raising farm animals: confinement, large-scale, factory farm operations versus pasture- and range-based, independent, humane family farms.
Jude Becker raises pigs under the standards set by the Animal Welfare Approved program and food label. Following a recent comparison, Animal Welfare Approved's standards were held up as ...