After a two-year study of concentrated animal feeding operations, the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production released in April its recommendations on how to improve the sustainability of food animal production.

The goal of the commission, according to John Carlin, chair of the commission and former Kansas governor, was to “sound the alarms that significant change is urgently needed in industrial farm animal production.”

The commission was formed in March 2006 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (see JAVMA, Dec. 1, 2006, page 1711). Pew Charitable Trusts provided a $2.6 million grant for the commission to the school.

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