TELL KERN COUNTY TO PROTECT THEIR FACTORY FARM ANIMALS: URGENT

This is crazy! In 2007, Kern Country had an extreme amount of factory farms which held 1,064,996 animals! That is over one million!

A factory farm is a large, industrial operation that raises large numbers of animals for food. Over 99% of farm animals in the U.S. are raised in factory farms, which focus on profit and efficiency at the expense of the animals’ welfare.

Factory farms pack animals into spaces so tight that most can barely move. Many have no access to the outdoors, spending their lives on open warehouse floors, or housed in cages or pens. Without the room to engage in natural behaviors, confined animals experience severe physical and mental distress. Think about that, 1 million animals packed into factory farms being tormented. Not only that, but factory farms have many practices such as:

Unclean air: Waste piles up in the animal sheds, creating ammonia and dust. The ammonia irritates and can even burn animals’ eyes, skin and throats.

Unnatural lighting: Factory farms simulate unnatural day lengths to promote fast growth and desired behaviors.

Unnatural growth: Fast and disproportionate growth and production due to selective breeding causes ailments including chronic pain, mobility problems and heart problems.

Non-therapeutic medicating: So that they can survive the filthy conditions and grow even faster, some industries feed their animals antibiotics and/or hormones.

Unnatural reproduction: Many female farm animals spend virtually their entire lives pregnant, putting them under chronic strain.

Absent veterinary care: Most factory farms deny animals individualized veterinary care, including humane euthanasia.

Surgical mutilations: Many farm animals undergo painful mutilations to their tails, testicles, horns, toes or beaks, without painkillers, to make their behavior more manageable.

Shortened lives: Factory farmed animals are generally slaughtered at “market weight” well before the end of their natural life spans. In fact, most are still babies.

Please sign this urgent petition and tell Kern County to protect their animals!

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