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Stop Abuse of Farmed Animals during Transport
Target: U.S. CongressSponsored by: Animal Protection Institute
Billions of animals are transported to slaughter each year in the United States and across our borders, suffering terribly in the process. They endure deprivation of food and water, exposure to extreme heat or cold, overcrowding and injury, and lack of opportunity for rest.
These cruel transport practices and the misery they cause are driven by economics and fueled by a lack of government oversight. Animals pay the price in pain and suffering to provide cheap meat to consumers and to increase meat industry profits.
What is most shocking; there is effectively no federal regulation of farmed animal transportation in the United States. Current law allows livestock to be transported for up to 28 hours without food, rest, or water, but this law is rarely, if ever, enforced. Even if enforced, 28 hours is far too long to assure the well-being of transported farm animals.
Join us in calling on congress to enact meaningful legislation to regulate the transport of farmed animals throughout the United States and across our borders.
These cruel transport practices and the misery they cause are driven by economics and fueled by a lack of government oversight. Animals pay the price in pain and suffering to provide cheap meat to consumers and to increase meat industry profits.
What is most shocking; there is effectively no federal regulation of farmed animal transportation in the United States. Current law allows livestock to be transported for up to 28 hours without food, rest, or water, but this law is rarely, if ever, enforced. Even if enforced, 28 hours is far too long to assure the well-being of transported farm animals.
Join us in calling on congress to enact meaningful legislation to regulate the transport of farmed animals throughout the United States and across our borders.
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Stop themmm!!!It`S enough!!!I hate this!!!!SICK so SICK!!!!!
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Stop this horror!!i`s enough!!!! SICK!!!Stupid!!!!Stop them!!!!!
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They have feelings, they feel pain, thirst, they feel the heat and the cold.They SUFFER. they feel everything we feel.
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These are living, breathing creatures who feel pain and discomfort just like humans, only they can't speak up for themselves. We are their voices and we say, "Protect these animals, keep them safe, shield them from the elements, make sure that they are comfortable."
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I am ashamed to be a human being and wish I was not of this world. How can we be humans and treat these animals with such inhumane ways.
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It is revolting ! and cruel .
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Animals have feelinghs and so do people so if u r going ot give animals not pain killers while u kill or transport then y dont we do it to u so please have a heart and be kind not for money but for the livving. dont do what u dont want done to ur self. treat it like bulling.
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We must safeguard animals during transportation, both for their welfare and for people as well.
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These animals have their lives taken from them for the benefit of human consumption...The very least humans can do is treat them humanely in the process.
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Those poor animals!! they dont deserve to be treated like that!! they ahve feelings!!
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I love meat and fish, and a big part of how I choose what I eat is how humanely I think it was raised and slaughtered. I pay extra for free range eggs. I eat wild fish and beef in preference to pork and poultry. I won't eat veal of pate de foi gras. (Fish die a slow horrible death, but up until then wild fish live a natural life.) Farmers and the food industry need to find ways to make their products more appealing to consumers. If nothing else, this is what humane practices enable them to do.
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better laws are the only things keeping animals from cruelty. Changing the laws for the better of the animals would and will make the difference of the world. I promise.
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I just love how this horrible people (government,FDA, U.S dept of ag the president) just sit on thier asses and do NOTHING for these poor suffering animals!! If it were them they sure the hell wouldnt let it happen to them, being in a truck with hundereds of cramped tired thirsty,scared cold animals, how sad, how can people and sadly our disgusting laws let this STILL GO ON RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACE!!! Thats why we need a BETTER government,laws and president. god bless all the poor animals! and may god bring them to a better place then this disgusting world we live in!
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Congress, There is a movement toward a more deliberate long sighted - a slowdown if you will on how we move and effect each other and our Earth. These {animal slaughter) practices must be regulated in a gentler more considerate way, if we are to embrace an over all improved way of moving into the 21st century. Thanks for the job that you are doing in hearing our collective voices, and this petition as it states I would like to highlight - "stressed and injured animals are more likely to become infected with, spread, or succumb to disease. Long-distance transport across state and national borders and movement through auctions further increases the potential of serious disease outbreaks. New advancements in tracking systems can be used to enforce transport regulations, in addition to providing expedient means of tracking animals exposed to or infected with diseases."
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Put yourself in the position of these animals, then make your decision on how they should be treated during transport. Anyone that allows abuse on animals is as guilty as the perpetrators.
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These animals give their lives for human greed. The least you can do is provide decent transport.
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Not only I oppose this during transport... It should be stopped at all costs!
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