Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Josh Balk of HSUS at the Friedman School April 24

Josh Balk, director of corporate policy for the farm animal protection campaign of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), will speak at the Friedman School, tomorrow, Wednesday, April 24, at 12:15 pm, in the Behrakis Auditorium of the Jaharis Building on Tufts University's Boston Campus.

The abstract says:
His seminar will offer an exceptional opportunity to discuss the controversial strategies and tactics used by HSUS, addressing the vexing issue of animal welfare in a meat-eating society.
You may register to see a live stream of this presentation.

I will introduce the event and moderate a conversation afterwards.

I have been especially interested in the work of HSUS in recent years, following the organization's successful negotiation with leading egg industry associations about egg production practices and labeling.  You can read an impartial and even-handed summary of that agreement (.pdf) from the Congressional Research Service.

The Humane Society is one of the few major public interest organizations that shares my curiosity about the semi-governmental National Pork Board's questionable $60 million purchase of the "Other White Meat" brand from a leading pork industry trade association.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for letting us know about the talk. It was very interesting.

Anonymous said...

HSUS is nothing about animal welfare. To imply that it's a welfare organization is a falsehood. Rather it wants to cease animal agriculture full stop.

usfoodpolicy said...

How would we know that HSUS, who recently reached a sensible compromise with egg producers, and who features farmers using humane production systems in all sorts of publicity, wants to end animal agriculture full stop? From something HSUS said? From something somebody else said about HSUS? Mind reading?