Fast Food Company Helps Ensure Animal Welfare
Much of my time is spent reporting on organizations and individuals that target the animal ag industry when Open Range returns, I’ll tell you about some good guys for a change. Animal agriculture is under attack by groups with anti-meat or production ag agendas and because of activist movies like Food Inc. consumers hear a barrage of negatively about American companies, many who happen to be in the restaurant industry. Seems no matter how much money Mc Donald’s gives to charities like the Ronald Mc Donald House simply by virtue of how large the franchise has become worldwide they are a magnet for negative press. Today I’d like to take 30 seconds of your time and tell you how the McDonald Corporation is helping to ensure farm animals are humanely handled through their contribution to Temple Grandin Scholarship Fund in Animal Behavior and Welfare. Temple Grandin is an esteemed animal scientist who has become the face of humane animal handling through her books and work at Colorado State University. McDonalds just contributed $100,000 to her scholarship fund in support of graduate students that will carry on Temple mission and message, one that in the words of CSU’s dean of College of Agricultural Sciences says highlights the revolutionary influence Grandin has had in animal welfare and our global food system.