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Meet Your Meat: End Factory Farming Today!
Target: US House of RepresentativesSponsored by: PETA
Have you met your meat? Most people eat meat with the luxury of not having to see the horrors of how the animals are raised and slaughtered. These practices are not only cruel, they are dangerous to our health as well, as unhealthy animals produce unhealthy meat.
In factory farms, chickens, pigs, cows and other animals are treated like commodities, despite their intelligence and personality. Chickens, who form strong emotional bonds with their families, have their sensitive beaks sawed off with a burning hot blade and are confined to battery cages where they can't even lift a wing.
Pigs, who are considered smarter than 3-year-old children, are forcibly impregnated and confined to filthy metal crates so small they can't even turn around or lie down. Cows, who are gentle giants who are visibly distressed when separated from their calves, are subjected to castration, branding and de-horning - all without anesthesia.
These cruelties are just the beginning of the horrors of factory farming. Sign this petition today to tell Congress that factory farming must be stopped!
In factory farms, chickens, pigs, cows and other animals are treated like commodities, despite their intelligence and personality. Chickens, who form strong emotional bonds with their families, have their sensitive beaks sawed off with a burning hot blade and are confined to battery cages where they can't even lift a wing.
Pigs, who are considered smarter than 3-year-old children, are forcibly impregnated and confined to filthy metal crates so small they can't even turn around or lie down. Cows, who are gentle giants who are visibly distressed when separated from their calves, are subjected to castration, branding and de-horning - all without anesthesia.
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# 14,100:
9:52 am PDT, Jun 21,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
its cruel and gross and nothing should have to go through that
its cruel and gross and nothing should have to go through that
# 14,099:
8:20 pm PDT, Jun 20,
Jenny Welch, South Carolina
# 14,098:
4:00 pm PDT, Jun 20,
Julija Petrovic, Serbia And Montenegro
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9:08 am PDT, Jun 20,
Charlene Fournace, Texas
# 14,096:
4:07 pm PDT, Jun 19,
Julie Thimsen, California
PLEASE. DO THE RIGHT THING. PLEASE end the Abuse of animals in slaughter houses and other mills.
PLEASE. DO THE RIGHT THING. PLEASE end the Abuse of animals in slaughter houses and other mills.
# 14,095:
11:24 am PDT, Jun 19,
Michael Good, Maryland
i think animals should be able to live as normal lives as possible before they are sent off to slaughter. they should be able to move interact with other animals. and see the sunlight.
i think animals should be able to live as normal lives as possible before they are sent off to slaughter. they should be able to move interact with other animals. and see the sunlight.
# 14,094:
8:01 am PDT, Jun 19,
Laurie Mcinnis, New Hampshire
# 14,093:
7:19 am PDT, Jun 19,
Joel Friedlander, New Hampshire
We can give the animals we depend on for vital nutrients to go about our daily duties and lives decent lives. In treating farm animals and wildlife with decency and compassion we grow as human beings and learn to be decent and compassionate with ourselves. Sincerely, Joel Friedlander
We can give the animals we depend on for vital nutrients to go about our daily duties and lives decent lives. In treating farm animals and wildlife with decency and compassion we grow as human beings and learn to be decent and compassionate with ourselves. Sincerely, Joel Friedlander
# 14,092:
10:48 pm PDT, Jun 18,
B Mellor, Canada
# 14,091:
9:08 pm PDT, Jun 18,
Jessica Williams, Massachusetts
# 14,090:
4:17 pm PDT, Jun 18,
Risica Caputi, Florida
# 14,089:
5:53 am PDT, Jun 18,
Priscilla Littmoden, United Kingdom
Factory farming is a cruel trade and must be stopped,
Factory farming is a cruel trade and must be stopped,
# 14,088:
9:44 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Name not displayed, Texas
It's disgusting
It's disgusting
# 14,087:
8:14 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Mary Hydell, New York
# 14,086:
2:54 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Richard Painter, United Kingdom
# 14,085:
2:53 pm PDT, Jun 17,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
# 14,084:
8:31 am PDT, Jun 17,
Name not displayed, California
I want to end factory farming and cruelty to animals. Please stop the abuse. Thank you.
I want to end factory farming and cruelty to animals. Please stop the abuse. Thank you.
# 14,083:
6:50 pm PDT, Jun 16,
Alexandra Napolitano, Nevada
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12:58 pm PDT, Jun 16,
Jakub Coltun, California
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8:48 pm PDT, Jun 15,
Jillian Williams, Ohio
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# 14,080:
10:02 pm PDT, Jun 14,
Adriana Faria, Washington
# 14,079:
9:15 pm PDT, Jun 14,
Warren Higgins, California
This is truly is a matter of respecting and honoring other living systems, which are not "other", at all in actuality, as what effects one, affects each other. This action will spread such a message, much needed to be heard.
This is truly is a matter of respecting and honoring other living systems, which are not "other", at all in actuality, as what effects one, affects each other. This action will spread such a message, much needed to be heard.
# 14,078:
1:54 pm PDT, Jun 13,
Name not displayed, Ohio
# 14,077:
9:06 am PDT, Jun 12,
Angela Cochran, Kentucky
# 14,076:
5:43 pm PDT, Jun 11,
Eric Wagner, Pennsylvania
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4:54 pm PDT, Jun 10,
Lillian Dean, New York
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3:08 pm PDT, Jun 10,
Alanna Thompson, Arizona
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1:18 pm PDT, Jun 10,
Cheryl Williams, Canada
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12:27 pm PDT, Jun 10,
Christine Anderson, Oregon
I am aghast and deeply grieved by the unimaginable torture animals routinely endure in slaughterhouses. Meat is cut off of them while they are still alive! Workers break their bones and drag them through doorways if they're too large or in too much pain to walk. This is SICK and INHUMAN. You have an ethical obligation to STOP THIS TORTURE. |
# 14,071:
12:21 pm PDT, Jun 9,
Avak Norbert Kirchner, Germany
# 14,070:
8:45 am PDT, Jun 9,
Julie O Donovan, Ireland
There are humane ways of killing animals for meat, but people are just interested in making money and letting the animals suffer when they dont need to...
There are humane ways of killing animals for meat, but people are just interested in making money and letting the animals suffer when they dont need to...
# 14,069:
6:39 pm PDT, Jun 8,
Chris Catalano, New York
# 14,068:
2:33 pm PDT, Jun 8,
Mary E. Raines, Wisconsin
# 14,067:
8:48 am PDT, Jun 8,
YLynn Foster, Texas
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8:41 am PDT, Jun 8,
Jim Phillips, California
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8:35 am PDT, Jun 8,
Ange Barrett, United Kingdom
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6:40 am PDT, Jun 8,
Pirjo Sundqvist, Sweden
# 14,063:
6:30 am PDT, Jun 8,
Romona Hanes-Troxell, Pennsylvania
# 14,062:
3:19 pm PDT, Jun 7,
Craig Martin, United Kingdom
I am writing to you today to express my deep concern for the welfare of animals raised and slaughtered in factory farms. Pigs, cows, chickens and other animals who have all been proven to be intelligent and emotional animals, are often kept in disgusting and cramped conditions, and subjected to painful and degrading procedures:
I am writing to you today to express my deep concern for the welfare of animals raised and slaughtered in factory farms. Pigs, cows, chickens and other animals who have all been proven to be intelligent and emotional animals, are often kept in disgusting and cramped conditions, and subjected to painful and degrading procedures:
# 14,061:
1:46 pm PDT, Jun 7,
Nadine Knobloch, Germany
# 14,060:
8:40 am PDT, Jun 7,
Dawn Cullin, New York
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9:41 pm PDT, Jun 6,
Georgie Stevens, Australia
# 14,058:
3:04 pm PDT, Jun 6,
Mark Kiernan, Italy
# 14,057:
2:39 pm PDT, Jun 6,
Megan Bradley, Washington
# 14,056:
4:49 am PDT, Jun 6,
Roos Baert, Belgium
# 14,055:
12:12 am PDT, Jun 6,
Sonja BONFILS, France
# 14,054:
4:01 am PDT, Jun 5,
Billiotte Nathalie, France
# 14,053:
2:50 am PDT, Jun 5,
ELAINE ROBINSON, United Kingdom
How anyone that's underlined eat animals I don't know it makes my stomach turn
How anyone that's underlined eat animals I don't know it makes my stomach turn
# 14,052:
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1:44 am PDT, Jun 5,
Bryan Graczyk, New York
CAFOs are a bleak monstrosity, like something out of a nightmare. Imagine being confined in a small space for your entire short life, the sounds of frightened and injured others issuing from all around. Your eyes sting from the ammonia in the air, the filthy stench of excreta; your side is sore and bleeding from rubbing against the bar on the side of your cage constantly, coated with feces; your legs are ready to give out under you, your body overblown to grotesque size due to hormones that cause you to grow at shocking speeds, thus accelerating your coming to slaughter age, and maximizing your profitability--you are worth no more than your weight in meat. This is the hell of CAFOs. And the animals aren't the only victims... impoverished slaughterhouse workers labor in strenuous and brutal conditions, while surrounding communities of humans as well as the rest of the ecology wither from the devastating pollution. Communities are destroyed as family farms are usurped by these demonic places of horror--which are subsidized and empowered by our government using our tax money. Our society is mad if we allow this to continue! |
# 14,051:
7:55 pm PDT, Jun 4,
BRITTNEY DENAPOLI, North Carolina