Vote YES on Prop 2 - Stop Animal Cruelty!

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Dear Californians,

 

On November 4, 2008

Vote YES on Prop 2

Stop Animal Cruelty!

 

The Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act would require calves raised for veal, egg-laying hens, and breeding pigs on industrialized factory farms have enough room to turn around and extend their limbs.  It’s hard to imagine a more modest initiative, yet it would improve the lives of millions of farm animals in our state who suffer intensive confinement in cages and crates so tiny they can barely move their whole lives.

 

Endorsements include:

 

Nearly 450 California veterinarians and more than 150 California veterinary medical students, The Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, and nearly 50 veterinary hospitals and clinics,

 

The city councils of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Davis, Santa Monica, Santa Cruz and Berkeley; US Senator Dianne Feinstein; US Representatives Barbara Lee (Oakland) and Maxine Waters (Los Angeles), Mayors Gavin Newsom (San Francisco), Marty Blum (Santa Barbara), and Craig Litwin (Sebastapol); state Senators Sheila Kuehl (Los Angeles), Christine Kehoe (San Diego) and Carole Migden (San Francisco); Assembly Speaker pro Tem Sally Lieber (Mountain View); and Assembly Members Mike Davis (Los Angeles), Loni Hancock (Albany), Mark Leno (San Francisco), Lloyd Levine (Van Nuys), and Jose Solorio (Anaheim)

 

More than 60 well-known experts, authors, actors, actresses, chefs, and others, including Dr. Jane Goodall, Michael Pollan, Ed Begley, Jr., Bill McKibben, Eric Schlosser, Ellen DeGeneres, Daryl Hannah, Alicia Silverstone, Ed Asner, and more.

 

More than 45 organizations across the country that are working to address the public health, environmental, social justice and animal welfare impacts of factory farming, including the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, Center for Food Safety, Center for Science in the Public Interest, the California Democratic Party, Compassion in World Farming, the Cesar Chavez Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club California, Greenpeace USA, Organic Consumers Association, and the Union of Concerned Scientists

 

National and state leaders from across the religious spectrum, including: the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, The Right Reverend Marc Handley Andrus, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, Bishop Beverly J. Shamana, California Nevada Conference, United Methodist Church, Bishop Mary Ann Swenson, California-Pacific Conference, United Methodist Church, The Right Reverend James R. Mathes, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, Richard Mouw, President of Fuller Seminary, and more than 50 leaders of individual California congregations

 

Nearly 300 California businesses from all walks of commerce, including restaurants, artists, pet-related stores and services, real estate brokers, grocery stores, health care professionals, construction, and more.

 

More than three dozen California farmers, including Bill Niman, Prather Ranch, Dobson Dairy Ranch, Eatwell Farms, Flores Ranch, Lunny Ranch, and US Farms, Inc.

 

More than 100 organizations, including more than a dozen California humane societies and SPCAs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and beyond; the State Humane Association of California; and leading national organizations like The Humane Society of the United States, Farm Sanctuary, the National Federation of Humane Societies, and Best Friends Animal Society.

 

For more information on how you can help go to http://www.humanecalifornia.org

 

This message forwarded by

 

Kate Danaher

http://www.AnimalEarthHuman.org

Helping Humans See Animals in Society

San Rafael, CA 94901 USA

415.459.4109 landline

415.847.9748 mobile

katedanaher

 

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