While hosting a group of young farmers at Brownfield’s broadcasting headquarters, I asked what issues were top of mind for them. The first farmer said U.S.-China trade relations is his greatest concern. Another farmer spoke about over-regulation in agriculture and how thankful he is for the new clean water rule. The next one to speak went down a different path entirely. Her concern: the legal rights of a pachyderm in the Bronx.
The “personhood” and rights of Happy, a 47-year old Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo were to be argued in The New York Supreme Court the next day.
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