The following letter included below from the president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, Wayne Pacell, urges California voters to support the passing of Proposition 2 on Election Day– and all other voters not in CA to support it anyway ( most of your food probably comes from that region anyhow).
If passed, proposition 2, called a modest proposal by the New York Times for requesting the most basic of humane treatment for animals, would prohibit the confinement of animals in ways that prevent them from being able to stand, sit, lie down, turn around and extend their limbs.
“The fact that such fundamental decencies have to be forced upon factory farming says a lot about its horrors. We urge California voters to pass Proposition 2. We urge every state to enact similar laws,” writes the NY Times. You don’t have to be a vegetarian or a bleeding heart liberal to support this legislation. As the NY Times aptly puts it:
“Americans are becoming increasingly aware of how and where food is raised. With that should come real concern. The mantra of industrial farming has always been efficiency, but efficiency has come to mean a pregnant sow — millions of them — confined in a gestation crate barely 2 feet wide and only as long as she is. It means veal-calves rendered virtually immobile in crates barely large enough to contain their bodies. It means endless rows of laying hens kept in battery cages so small that the birds cannot even stretch their wings.
No philosophy can justify this kind of cruelty, not even the philosophy of cheapness.” Read the rest of this entry to learn more about Proposition 2 from the HSUS. Read the rest of this entry »
