- Delicious movie stars.
Last month, Governor Ted Strickland brokered a deal between animal advocates and hamburger lovers that will require Ohio’s livestock farms to kindly ease off their use of torture devices over the next several years. Included are plans to keep sick animals out of the food supply, set up rules for killing them, and to do away with various types of cages.
But while the pact bought silence from the Humane Society, it’s having a somewhat less measurable effect on Mercy for Animals, the militant vegan group with an unnatural passion for making barnyard slasher movies. You may recall the one from this spring in which cows on a central Ohio farm were kicked and beaten by carefree laborers.
This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2010.
