My first impression is that this is a really exciting strategy to explore! Thanks for doing this, and please post updates :)
FWIW, I don’t expect it to be that hard to find common ground with a cattle rancher about chicken welfare standards even with disagreement over the end goal, for all the great reasons you laid out in this post. (Though, it makes me wonder why ranchers wouldn’t have already started this sort of lobbying without the nudge you’re hoping to provide—given how straightforward your points were, someone in the beef industry must have thought of this?)
Thanks Kevin! You pose a great question, and I’m not sure about the answer. I’m hoping to learn more as I get further along with this. A few hypotheses come to mind:
The large meat companies are the most powerful voices in the sector, and they have interest across all types of animal products. In particular, they have a lot of influence in the NCBA, which is the main group that one might think would be interested in these arguments.
Cultural factors that define the space of possible things that one could do to help ranchers. Similar to why I haven’t really heard about this strategy from the animal welfare side of things, despite it being (as you say) pretty straightfoward.
My first impression is that this is a really exciting strategy to explore! Thanks for doing this, and please post updates :)
FWIW, I don’t expect it to be that hard to find common ground with a cattle rancher about chicken welfare standards even with disagreement over the end goal, for all the great reasons you laid out in this post. (Though, it makes me wonder why ranchers wouldn’t have already started this sort of lobbying without the nudge you’re hoping to provide—given how straightforward your points were, someone in the beef industry must have thought of this?)
Thanks Kevin! You pose a great question, and I’m not sure about the answer. I’m hoping to learn more as I get further along with this. A few hypotheses come to mind:
The large meat companies are the most powerful voices in the sector, and they have interest across all types of animal products. In particular, they have a lot of influence in the NCBA, which is the main group that one might think would be interested in these arguments.
Cultural factors that define the space of possible things that one could do to help ranchers. Similar to why I haven’t really heard about this strategy from the animal welfare side of things, despite it being (as you say) pretty straightfoward.