Raising the bar for animal care - Special Report (About)

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Politicians and the public are becoming more interested in animal welfare issues. The trend is generating developments, some benign such as voluntary programs that provide welfare audits, certification and labelling, and others interventionist, such as laws banning gestation crates and poultry battery cages.

Western Producer Brandon reporter Robert Arnason examines how meat eaters are influencing the operations of meat producers.

About the author

Robert Arnason is a reporter with The Western Producer and Glacier Farm Media. Since 2008, he has authored nearly 5,000 articles on anything and everything related to Canadian agriculture. He didn’t grow up on a farm, but Robert spent hundreds of days on his uncle’s cattle and grain farm in Manitoba. Robert started his journalism career in Winnipeg as a freelancer, then worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Nipawin, Saskatchewan and Fernie, BC. Robert has a degree in civil engineering from the University of Manitoba and a diploma in LSJF – Long Suffering Jets’ Fan.