Addressing International Trade Complexities of Animal Welfare: One in a Series of Educational Programs Presented by the Future Trends in Animal Agriculture

摘要

Many traditional North American manufacturing and processing enterprises have already moved to offshore locations. Similarly, cheap labor, combined with less rigorous environmental and/or animal welfare standards could combine to result in a major migration of confinement animal production systems to locations outside North America. Such a migration of production systems to other regions of the world may not be in the long-term best interests of animal producers, animal protection advocates, USA consumers/citizens, or the animals themselves. Therefore, it is in the best interests of all parties impacted for North American animal agriculture leaders and animal protection leaders and activists to focus attention on finding and implementing the most sustainable animal agriculture systems domestically.