Factory Farms should be humane!
- by: Animals Too
- recipient: President Obama and U.S. Congress and Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack
Animals in factory farms suffer unimaginable cruelty, chickens live there whole life in a pen that can barely fit them, let alone give them space to move. Workers at chicken “farms” have been documented spitting tobacco in chickens eyes and stepping on their heads. Cows are separated from their mothers at birth; this is painful for the mother, as well as the infant, as cows, like humans form strong maternal bonds. Bulls are branded with hot irons and dehorned without painkillers and bulls as well as pigs are castrated without painkillers. Pigs are cruelly treated as well; more than a million pigs die in the transportation of them alone. Baby pigs have their tails cut off. Often pig slaughter is ineffective and the animal will be literally boiled alive, (a process designed to remove the hair on the pig). Pregnant sows, before giving birth are placed in tight cages whose bars have been documented rubbing sores in the sow’s side.This should, and can be stopped!
We the undersigned ask you to examine the treatment that animals in factory farms undergo, and regularly monitor these "farms" so as to insure a painless life for the livestock. Everyday these animals are cruelly and unnecessarily tortured, and factory farms have been documented breaking a number of animal welfare laws. These animals deserve better, we are taking their meat, their milk, or their babies, do they not deserve a painless life? As
the New York Times writer, Mark Bittman puts it,
"Video Taping at factory farms wouldn't be necessary if the industry were properly regulated. But it isn't. And the public knows this; (...) poll after poll finds that almost everyone believes that even if it costs more, farm animals should be treated humanely.". Please consider this.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter.
