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I am sending on information I got through an email from the ASPCA this morning. This link should take you right to the Petition page.
Since that is a secure link, you might have to go through the Advocacy Center page, the Petition is the second item down.
Failing all else, go through the home page of the ASPCA website.
This is what the Petition says:
USA: Tell Govt. to Reject Cruel Factory Farm Confinement Methods!
H.R. 4733—Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act
Sponsors: Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA) and Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA)
ASPCA Position: Support
Action Needed: Please email your U.S. representative and urge him or her to support the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act.
Recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Diane Watson and Rep. Elton Gallegly, the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act (H.R. 4733) is a federal bill that would require the U.S. Government to purchase animal products only from entities that do not keep animals in gestation crates, veal crates or battery cages. Since almost all major packers and distributors do business with the federal government, this legislation would have a significant impact and dramatically improve animals’ living conditions in many farms across the nation.
In order to sell to the federal government, producers would be required to meet minimum humane standards (they would have two years from the date of the Act’s enactment to do so). Their animals would have to be provided with adequate space to stand up, lie down and turn around freely without any impediments, including tethers, and without touching the sides of their enclosures. Animals must also be able to fully extend all limbs without touching the sides of their enclosures—and in the case of egg-laying hens, fully spread both wings without touching the side of an enclosure or another hen.
What You Can Do
We need your help to get this important legislation passed. Please use the email below to ask your U.S. representative to support H.R. 4733, which would require federal agencies to procure food products derived only from sources that raise animals without extreme, cruel confinement methods.
Thank you for your help, animal advocates.
Fellow Reader readers, please take five minutes of your life to sign the Petition. :)
I am sending on information I got through an email from the ASPCA this morning. This link should take you right to the Petition page.
Since that is a secure link, you might have to go through the Advocacy Center page, the Petition is the second item down.
Failing all else, go through the home page of the ASPCA website.
This is what the Petition says:
USA: Tell Govt. to Reject Cruel Factory Farm Confinement Methods!
H.R. 4733—Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act
Sponsors: Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA) and Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA)
ASPCA Position: Support
Action Needed: Please email your U.S. representative and urge him or her to support the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act.
Recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Diane Watson and Rep. Elton Gallegly, the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act (H.R. 4733) is a federal bill that would require the U.S. Government to purchase animal products only from entities that do not keep animals in gestation crates, veal crates or battery cages. Since almost all major packers and distributors do business with the federal government, this legislation would have a significant impact and dramatically improve animals’ living conditions in many farms across the nation.
In order to sell to the federal government, producers would be required to meet minimum humane standards (they would have two years from the date of the Act’s enactment to do so). Their animals would have to be provided with adequate space to stand up, lie down and turn around freely without any impediments, including tethers, and without touching the sides of their enclosures. Animals must also be able to fully extend all limbs without touching the sides of their enclosures—and in the case of egg-laying hens, fully spread both wings without touching the side of an enclosure or another hen.
What You Can Do
We need your help to get this important legislation passed. Please use the email below to ask your U.S. representative to support H.R. 4733, which would require federal agencies to procure food products derived only from sources that raise animals without extreme, cruel confinement methods.
Thank you for your help, animal advocates.
Fellow Reader readers, please take five minutes of your life to sign the Petition. :)