Today is voting day, and there are so many important issues to consider, but for Californians – it is extremely important that they remember to vote yes for Prop 2. Californians for Humane Farms is the sponsor of the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, an initiative that is on today’s ballot in California.
Prop 2, the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, will provide more humane treatment for millions of farm animals by phasing out their confinement in small crates and cages where they can barely move for their entire lives. Prop 2 will result in a direct reduction of suffering of the estimated 20 million animals presently confined on California factory farms.
Prop 2, if passed, would take effect in 2015 and would require that calves raised for veal (veal crates), breeding pigs (gestation crates), and egg-laying hens (battery hen cages) are given enough space to turn around, lie down, and stretch their limbs. Similar laws have been passed in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Oregon, and throughout the European Union’s 27 member countries.
California has approximately 19 million egg-laying hens. Each caged hen has less space than a sheet of letter-sized paper on which to live for more than a year before she is slaughtered. The birds can't even spread their wings, let alone nest, dust-bathe, perch, walk more than a few steps, or engage in nearly any of their natural behaviors. They endure lives filled with suffering.
During their four-month pregnancies, thousands of female breeding pigs in California are confined in barren gestation crates—individual metal stalls only two-feet wide. The crates are so small that the animals cannot even turn around. Barely able to move, the pigs can develop crippling joint disorders and lameness.
In order to produce veal, calves are taken from their mothers, usually when they’re just hours old. For the four months before they are slaughtered, the calves are typically tethered by their necks in crates too narrow for them to turn around or even lie down comfortably. Prevented from engaging in their natural behaviors or from satisfying basic psychological needs, calves crated for veal suffer immensely, virtually immobilized in filthy, dark and barren confinement.
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