Wisconsin bill would limit local control over animal welfare

Chad Zuleger (back to camera), director of government affairs at the Dairy Business Association, addresses the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Local Government during a Jan. 24, 2024, public hearing on a bill to block local governments from implementing stricter rules than the state already imposes regarding animal welfare. He could not point to any existing local rules that would be invalidated by the bill.
Andy Manis

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Bennet Goldstein reports on water and agriculture as Wisconsin Watch’s Report for America representative on the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a collaborative reporting network across the Basin. Before this, Goldstein was on the breaking news team at the Omaha World-Herald in Nebraska. He has spent most of his career at daily papers in Iowa, including the Dubuque Telegraph Herald. Goldstein’s work has garnered awards, including the Associated Press Media Editors award for an explanatory feature about a police shooting in rural Wisconsin, and an Iowa Newspaper Association award for a series that detailed the impacts of the loss of social safety net programs on Dubuque’s Marshallese community. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.