ISU Dean Critical of Proposition 2

Wendy Wintersteen, dean of Iowa State University's College of Agriculture, testified before the House and Senate State Ag Committees in February on what she sees as the harmful effects of California's Proposition 2 accorind to a story in Radio Iowa.

Wintersteen said that those who voted for Proposition 2, which will phase out gestation crates, veal crates, and chicken cages by 2015, are "very uninformed about the issue."

"The difficulty with the Humane Society of the United States is that they really are not about helping people understand the science of the issue. They are about, really, building to the rhetoric involved and so you have a set of people in California that are very uninformed about the issue that voted to make a decision that will, in fact, have tremendous consequences across the United states," Wintersteen was reported to say.

She says Iowa farmers should be wary that similar legislation could be developed in Iowa.