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It is striking that the effects of this are more or less entirely shouldered by the animal farmers.

Abuse during transport and the spreading of animal diseases directly impact on the image, and often the income, of animal farmers, while they are not to blame for these causes.

The sad truth is that in every single case, it is the animal farmer who ends up footing the bill at a time when meat prices are unacceptably low and consumer prices remain at an all-time high.

And Rodney W. Dow, one of his neighbors and a former SUNY agriculture professor, wrote in the local newspaper: "There is not an animal farmer that I have seen that at sometime during the year does not have his animals standing in manure.