Help Ban Veal and Gestation Crates in California!

[Guest guest]

Citizens of California have the opportunity to stop some of the most atrocious

and inhumane conditions endured by animals used in agriculture

AB 732 seeks to outlaw veal crates and gestation crates, two foot-wide

enclosures where calves and pigs are confined so tightly that they cannot walk,

turn around, or even lie down comfortably. These cruel devices have been

outlawed by countries in Europe, and they should be banned in the U.S. as well.

AB 732 also seeks to prohibit veal producers from denying calves adequate iron

and fiber in their diets, a practice that is intended to produce borderline

anemia and the pale colored meat sold as veal. More detailed information about

veal crates and gestation crates is available at www.freefarmanimals.org.

 

1. Contact your assemblyperson immediately and urge him or her to support AB

732. It is critical for legislators to hear from numerous constituents, so

please encourage others in your area to contact your legislator as well. You can

obtain contact info for your state assemblyperson at http://www.assembly.ca.gov.

 

2. Contact Barbara Matthews, Chair of the Assembly Agriculture committee, which

is considering AB 732. Please urge her to support passage of this humane

measure. Assemblywoman Barbara Matthews, State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849,

Sacramento, CA 94249-0017. Phone 916-319-2017; Fax: 916-319-2117

 

3. Write letters to the editor, detailing the cruelty that occurs on factory

farms, and how AB 732 will help ease animal suffering.

 

I just spoke with Gene Bauston from Farm Sanctuary who said this will be a tough

bill to pass unless Matthews hears from A LOT of people! Please call today, and

pass this email on!

 

Peace for all who live,

Colleen

 

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Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Senior Content & Creative Director

JustGive.org

phone (510) 238-5004

fax (510) 238-4809

colleen

http://www.justgive.org

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" All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself

in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? " ~Buddha

 

" You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed

in the graceful distance of miles, there is

complicity. " ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

" Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do Something. Anything. "

~Sasha

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi folks,

 

Thanks to Colleen for this important call to action! This is an issue

that even a lot of our meat eating friends can get behind.

 

I called my Assembly member Wilma Chan's office this morning, and her

staff was happy to hear my opinion. I then called Barbara Matthews'

office who transferred me to the Ag Committee office. I asked them how

best to make my opinion heard on the matter of AB 732 and the woman I

spoke with suggested I send a fax. When I asked to whose attention I

should send the fax, she replied that there are only three people in

their office, and they would " make sure it got in the file " .

 

Here's the Agricultural Committee fax #: 916-319-2184

 

-Josh

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