Friend,


The Ohio Environmental Council urges you to vote NO on State Issue 2 on the November 3rd ballot.

Issue 2 is a wide-ranging proposal to amend the Ohio Constitution in the name of "safe and affordable" food to establish livestock and poultry confinement standards.

The OEC opposes Issue 2 because it believes that the proposed language and its invoking of "affordable food supplies" can be distorted to discourage the adoption of stronger environmental standards at animal feeding facilities and can thwart the disclosure of the presence of antibiotics or hormones in food on product labels.

After carefully examining the language of Issue 2 and listening to all sides of the debate, the OEC has concluded that Issue 2 is:
  • bad environmental and public health policy;
  • regressive food policy;
  • poor public policy;
  • unnecessary;
  • weak on enforcement; and
  • a strain on the state budget.
To read more about Issue 2 and the OEC's reasons for opposing it, click here or contact Joe Logan, Director of Agricultural Programs, at Joe@theOEC.org.

We urge you to vote NO on Issue 2.

Thank you for your continued support of Ohio's environmental-conservation efforts and remember to vote NO on Issue 2 on the November 3rd ballot.

Sincerely,


Keith Dimoff
Executive Director