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8th annual Animal Agriculture Alliance Conference 02 Jul 2009

Alliance members cover a large majority of livestock and meat-related trade groups across the US.
The organisation increasingly seeks to conduct research and surveillance of all activities and strategies that activists groups may be contemplating or pursuing and to recommend or devise ways to counter adversarial activities that may threaten US agricultural practices. 
 
One of the Conference speakers, Dr. Wes Jamison, Associate Professor of Communication at Palm Beach – who’s presentation, “Why Do Animals Matter? - Animals and the Use of Religion in the Animal Welfare Debate,” riveted his audience with his talk. Dr Jamison focused on subtle ways in which animal rights activists arouse interest from members of the public and collectively draw huge financial donations to their various coffers.
 
Another speaker, Dr Nils Beaumond, Secretary of the International Meat Secretariat based from France, outlined how various EU governments usually have authority or influence to create animal welfare laws and/or standards (sometimes perhaps going too far), whereas the US system has a history of wanting minimal government intrusion in agriculture. Nevertheless, Beaumond was favorably impressed by how the Alliance had brought so many delegates together privately to seek an alternative kind of political consensus for best animal welfare systems suited to US agriculture.

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