Help the farm animals in Arizona come this fall!

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Arizona Initiative Underway to Ban Cruel CratesThe cruel and intensive confinement of veal calves and pregnant pigs on industrialized factory farms may soon be banned if enough support is given to a crucial ballot initiative effort now underway in Arizona! This ballot initiative aims to stop cruel, industrialized corporate factory farms in Arizona which place profit ahead of animal welfare. Gestation crates were banned in Florida as a result of a similar grassroots citizen initiative. For more information, visit Arizonans for Humane Farms and spread the word about this initiative.

 

More can be found here:

http://www.farmsanctuary.org/media/pr_AZ.htm

 

 

PHOENIX -- Arizonans for Humane Farms, a coalition of animal welfare organizations, today filed a ballot measure with the Secretary of State that would provide more humane treatment for farm animals in Arizona. The measure, which the group aims to certify for the November 2006 election, would prohibit the cruel confinement of pigs during pregnancy and young veal calves in small crates on factory farms. It would require that the animals have enough room to turn around, lie down, and extend their limbs.

The coalition-which includes the Arizona Humane Society, Animal Defense League of Arizona, AzSPCA (a division of the Arizona Animal Welfare League), ASPCA, Farm Sanctuary, and The Humane Society of the United States-expects hundreds of volunteers to begin gathering signatures on petitions this fall. They need at least 122,612 valid signatures of registered Arizona voters to qualify for the November 2006 ballot, and the campaign is aiming to collect more than 200,000 signatures.

 

 

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