The Animal Ag Alliance recently attended the 2019 Animal Rights National Conference in Alexandria, Virginia. The nonprofit organization, which helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork, wrote a summary report about the conference for its members and other industry stakeholders.

When it rains, it pours, so the saying goes. But in the past four months, entities creating various international standards for animal welfare appear to be coming as quickly and forcefully as a flash flood! As if there’s not enough on the animal welfare front to manage already at the local, state and national levels, U.S. agriculture’s proverbial head is spinning from all of the newly announced competition internationally.