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Article: Animal Welfare Approved Farmer Jude Becker Featured on Oprah
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- October 15, 2008
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To: RADIO-TELEVISION EDITORS
Contact: Beth Hauptle of Animal Welfare Approved, +1-703-836-
4300
-Rapidly growing program recognized for having the highest
standards for farm animal welfare-
DYERSVILLE, Iowa, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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 ...