PRESS Release
19 June 2014
Contact
Dan Kleinsorge
Dan@MOFarmersCare.com
(573) 821-2040
HSUS-Funded Front Group Not A Friend to Missouri Agriculture
19 JUNE 2014-JEFFERSON CITY, MO-Missouri Farmers Care released the following statement on the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)-funded Missouri’s Food For America political action committee attacking Amendment #1, the Missouri Farming Rights Amendment:
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is trying to put a farmer face on an anti-farmer message by paying Joe Maxwell and recruiting his allies to attack Amendment #1. Amendment #1 is supported by the tens of thousands of family farmers that make up Missouri Farmers Care’s member organizations, by over 1,000 family farmers that have endorsed the amendment on Missouri Farmers Care’s website, and by over 1,000 family farmers that have contributed their own hard-earned funds to Missouri Farmers Care to fight for passage of the amendment. Amendment #1 is supported by family farmers and the associations that are led by family farmers because it protects all of Missouri agriculture.
HSUS is once again at work in Missouri using a campaign based on scare tactics and misinformation. We believe the vast majority of Missourians will support Amendment #1 as is protects the ability of both farmers and consumers to have the maximum number of choices in how food is produced, and what kinds of food are available at supermarkets, farmer’s markets, and everywhere else food is sold and consumed.
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Members of Missouri Farmers Care include: Missouri Pork Association, Missouri Cattlemen’s Association, Missouri Soybean Association, Missouri Corn Growers Association, Missouri Farm Bureau, MFA Incorporated, Missouri Beef Industry Council, Inc., Missouri Dairy Association, Missouri Federation of Animal Owners, Missouri Egg Council, Inc., MFA Oil, Missouri Agribusiness Association, FCS Financial, Missouri Dairy Growth Council, Missouri Veterinary Medical Association, Cargill, Missouri Rural Electric Cooperatives, Missouri Pet Breeders Association, Monsanto, United Producers, Inc., Missouri Sheep Producers, Missouri Livestock Marketing Association, Missouri Farmer Today, Professional Pet Association, Missouri Association of Meat Processors, Missouri Whitetail Breeders and Hunting Ranch Association, Lathrop & Gage, Conservation Federation of Missouri, Missouri Sporting Dog Association, Rabo AgriFinance, Southwestern Association, the Poultry Federation, Missouri Equine Council, Missouri Levee & Drainage District Association, AGRIServices of Brunswick, Gebhards Grain, Aerial Crop Services, St. Louis Agribusiness Club, The Hunte Corporation, Sydenstricker Implement, BioFuels, LLC, Missouri Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association, and Dairy Farmers of America.
Paid for by Missouri Farmers Care – Gary Wheeler, Treasurer
