this is from a friend of mine at hsus about proposition 2 in california.
this is from a friend of mine at hsus about proposition 2 in california.
please do what you can to help the $20/20 campaign.
thanks,
moby
I'm hoping you can help us help 20 million farm animals in California.
As you know, we're in full support of Proposition 2 (www.YesOnProp2.org), a measure that will appear on this November's ballot in California that, if passed, will ban the cruelest and most inhumane confinement of 20 million farm animals in the state--hens in battery cages, breeding pigs in gestation crates, and calves in veal crates.
This historic effort will hopefully be the beginning of the end of factory farming confinement practices in the country!
Unfortunately, corporate agribusiness interests have put in more than $1million to defeat this measure over the past two weeks alone, and they plan to pump in millions more. To counter this big money, I'm calling on all my friends to help.
Can you help spread the word about the $20/20 Campaign? If everyone we know gives just $20 (or more!) to help these 20 million animals who are so intensively confined in battery cages, gestation crates and veal crates that they cannot even fully extend their limbs and many can't even turn around, we can raise the much-needed funds to combat agribusiness's funnelling of extraordinary amounts of money into defeating this measure that would so significantly and positively impact animals.
Donations are accepted at https://secure.hsus.org/01/chf_2020
frustrating
I was shocked to learn that in the US the fight against these practices has only just begun - in The Netherlands we've already come a long way, although there's much more to do. What annoys me is that farmers always seem to complain these days that business is so hard and it's tough to keep your head above water... but yet they have enough money to protest against this. Many farmers I know don't understand that there are still people farming this way - REAL farmers understand farming doesn't have to involve hurting animals except at the very end, and even for that there are 'humane' options. With a one-time investment (sometimes subsidized by the government) the company can be turned into a humane business that can still make a profit - maybe even more than the way they're farming now because interest in 'bio-products' is increasing. Thinking about these animals makes me lie awake at night - and not understanding the extremely unintelligent and ignorant reasoning of these farmers simply drives me up the wall.
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I just got a credit card that gives donations to the Humane Society whenever I make purchases. Smiles, and I hope to do some volunteer work there when I have some extra time in the future.
Love,
Rachelle LaDelle' Geisheker
"Dance......I don't have an attitude, I'm just REALLY good!" Winks*