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Meet Your Meat: End Factory Farming Today!

Target: US House of Representatives
Sponsored 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!

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000

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Dear Member of Congress,

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:

- Chickens have their sensitive beaks sawed off with a burning hot blade and are confined to tiny crates where they can't even raise a wing,
- Pigs are forcibly impregnated and confined to filthy, metal crates so small that they can't turn around or lie down comfortably, and
- Cows are subjected to agonizing procedures like castration, branding and de-horning -- all without anesthesia.

These horrors are just the beginning. The heavy use of antibiotics is putting us all at risk, and the amount of pollution that these factory farms generate accounts for more global warming pollution than the transportation industry!

We signed the “Meet Your Meat: End Factory Farming Today!” petition!

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10:35 am PDT, Jul 18, Name not displayed, Wisconsin
It is inhuman.

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5:18 pm PDT, Jul 17, Casey Baker, Washington

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2:56 pm PDT, Jul 16, Anja Gundermann, Germany

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2:01 pm PDT, Jul 16, Desiree Girotto, Virginia
It's time for the laws to be changed. These animals deserve to be treated humanely!

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7:44 am PDT, Jul 16, Anne Romanow, Illinois

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7:16 am PDT, Jul 16, Helen Heater, Florida
these are living creatures that do not deserve this abuse

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1:21 pm PDT, Jul 13, Rhea Forester, Texas

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11:59 am PDT, Jul 11, Cheryl White, Florida
If people had any idea how animals are treated in industrialized farming operations, they would not be able to eat for a week. We must stop this horrific practice now!

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7:21 am PDT, Jul 10, Kassie Kronenberger, Illinois

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5:38 pm PDT, Jul 9, Devon Nelson, South Carolina

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2:58 pm PDT, Jul 9, Greta Malkotzoglou, Greece

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10:54 am PDT, Jul 9, Jennifer Wilson, Tennessee

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10:26 am PDT, Jul 9, Name not displayed, California

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8:13 am PDT, Jul 9, Jennifer Minnis, Rhode Island

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1:17 pm PDT, Jul 8, Emme Hones, New York

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1:15 pm PDT, Jul 8, LILIAN BLUMENTHAL, Brazil
No more cruelty please!

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2:19 pm PDT, Jul 7, Sydney Anderson, Illinois
This is cruel and inhumane! This is the US of freaking A and we should be able to find more humane ways to get our food. Treat these animals with respect. [GO VEGETARIAN]

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1:11 pm PDT, Jul 6, Marisa Sebastian, Spain

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7:51 pm PDT, Jul 5, David Weinstein, California
Animals feel pain just like human being. If we slaughter and eat them ,we should at least do so 'humanely.'

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7:11 pm PDT, Jul 5, Heather Banks, Australia
End this monstrosity NOW! It is wrong in ever sense. These poor animals who are living in poor conditions without proper living standards is terrible. How could a human feel like this is okay and fine when it is not? Don't they feel inhumane and ashamed? I would but then again I wouldn't treat an animal this poorly. If people saw through a glass window how these animals are being treated they would (I would hope) stand up and make their voice heard and stop what is happening. I would hope they would also become vegetarian or vegan. They animals are in your hands and you should do what is right by them. These animals have done nothing wrong but be born so they can be killed. That in itself is barbaric! These wonderful creatures should be allowed to live and roam free NOT be killed for humans so they can eat. Please give these animals the respect and dignity they deserve. Help them not EAT them!

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11:38 am PDT, Jul 4, Cindy Dorfler - Hederer, Texas

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9:25 pm PDT, Jul 2, Jess Moon Senour, California

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7:35 pm PDT, Jul 2, Laurie Cain, Texas
I am not against eating meat, I'm just against the cruel treatment of animals in these huge factory farms. I think that while animals are alive they should be treated with kindness and get to live the type of life that is natural for them. I also don't want my food to be contaminated from these practices.

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9:38 am PDT, Jul 2, Lisa Webber, New York

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6:18 pm PDT, Jul 1, JAY Antol, Virginia
please do the right thing!

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6:34 pm PDT, Jun 30, Jessica Sawyer, Louisiana

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1:50 am PDT, Jun 30, Maria Cheryl Betancourt, Texas
Without going into a fit of rage., I thinks this is the most appalling, sad & disgusting things are crooked government can allow & all in the name of numbers & profit!! SHAME ON ALL THESE CORRUPT GREEDY SUBHUMANS EXCUSES OF LIFE FOR ALLOWING THIS GARBAGE TO GO ON DAY AFTER DAY..KARMA COMES BACK TO BITE US ALL! HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOUR LIFE DIDN'T MATTER??? IF IT'S BREATHING, BLEEDING OR HAS SKIN & FLESH THAN I BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR THEY FEEL PAIN! YOU NEED TO START REEXAMINING YOUR LAWS

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5:14 pm PDT, Jun 28, Kelly Todd Brewer, Michigan

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4:16 pm PDT, Jun 28, VICTORIA BiNCHI, Illinois

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4:03 pm PDT, Jun 28, Mercedes Roundy, Texas
because its inhumane and they torture the animals. its not fair to them and its not fair to the consumer because they dont know what they are buying.

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4:01 pm PDT, Jun 28, Mary Detrick, Florida

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9:18 am PDT, Jun 28, Jaclyn Green, New Jersey

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4:48 pm PDT, Jun 27, Agneta Wall, Sweden

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11:58 am PDT, Jun 27, Lisa Schwartz, California

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12:05 pm PDT, Jun 26, Joannne Sartor, California

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9:14 am PDT, Jun 26, Tamarah Swensen, Netherlands

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4:54 am PDT, Jun 26, Jade Brumitt, Indiana
Watching videas of the animals suffering...i cannot believe there are people out there that can just watch innocent animals die....or kill innocent animals.

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12:21 am PDT, Jun 26, Mary Kiefer, Massachusetts
I have no moral issues with the eating of meat; rather, I have moral issues with the way the animals are cruelly treated and degraded. I also do not want to risk illness by eating the meat of stressed, sick, and antibiotic-fed livestock. Please support the small, organic farms. I would rather pay more if it means that I will receive humanely, healthily-raised meat.

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6:56 am PDT, Jun 25, Marcia Warth, Ohio

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5:18 am PDT, Jun 25, Name not displayed, Illinois

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7:10 pm PDT, Jun 24, Shannon Cowett, Virginia

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5:29 pm PDT, Jun 24, Adriyana Dimitrova, Bulgaria

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8:00 am PDT, Jun 24, Jill Judson, Canada

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4:03 am PDT, Jun 24, Name not displayed, Ukraine
Imagine Your favorite cat pet on a plate with cranberry suace

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9:57 pm PDT, Jun 23, Frances M. Amaya, Texas
I cannot understand how otherwise rational people can eat the flesh of a slaughtered animal. If you stop and think about it for a minute, you might realise how horrid it is to kill a living being to calm your appetite. Look into the eyes of a cow, chicken, pig, whatever species you have eaten in the past, then kill it yourself and put that very creature on your plate. Do you still find it so appealing? Besides, you cannot be a flesh-eating environmentalist!

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11:06 am PDT, Jun 23, Hubert Delgrange, France
No more cruelty please.

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11:13 pm PDT, Jun 22, Patricia Bode, California

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4:44 pm PDT, Jun 22, Brooke Elrod, Kentucky

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8:54 am PDT, Jun 22, Elizabeth Mills, Indiana
The way they treat these animals is unreal! I dont understand how a person could do the things they do to these inocent animals. Its heart breaking

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7:54 am PDT, Jun 22, Robin Tavares, Massachusetts

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2:02 am PDT, Jun 22, Ann Blair, Hawaii

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6:19 pm PDT, Jun 21, Miranda Fitzgerald, Kentucky

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