action alert: help ban battery cages
Each year, millions of laying hens are confined to wire battery cages: tiny spaces that are usually smaller than a single sheet of paper. Citing animal welfare and food safety concerns, many have been working for years to have these cages banned, and some tremendous progress has been made!
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Just last week, a federal legislation to ban the cages and overhaul the egg industry was introduced to Congress by Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the bill (S.3239) was backed by a group of bipartisan co-sponsors. If passed, this bill will greatly improve the treatment of 280 million hens in the country, and will double the amount of space each bird has while also putting an end to forced starvation molting.
To move the bill forward, Senator Feinstein will need our help!
Please contact your local Senator and ask them to support Feinstein on S. 3239. You can find your Senator's information here.
To find out more about battery cages, visit The Humane Society's website here. You can also contact Senator Feinstein here to let her know just how much you appreciate her work on S. 3239.
What animal rights issues are most important to you? Share in the comments section and we will see what we can do to help.
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18 comments
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I did it! I emailed Patty Murray in Washington State! I'm sure she will ignore me...but I tried!
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This bill would in no way "replace" battery cages--in fact, it would establish egg factory cages as a national standard that could never be challenged or changed by state law or public vote. Instead of outlawing cages - this crazy measure would outlaw the BANNING of cages. That is why it is being pushed by the egg industry itself! The Stop the Rotten Egg Bill (http://www.StopTheRottenEggBill.org) campaign is getting it right. Check it out. This bill would stop cage-free laws dead in their tracks and keep hens locked in cruel metal cages forever, while instituting a variety of empty "reforms" that are already occurring due to state law and public pressure.
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Working with universities through the HSUS to encourage campuses to switch to cage-free eggs. Please sign & share this petition to get Rice University on board, too.
http://www.change.org/petitions/rice-university-switch-to-cage-free-eggs-on-campus
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Thanks for this info, just sent an e-mail to both of my senators!!
Let's hope for the best :))
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Hi Diane,
I know that the petition closed for the pig pen letter to Obama, however it is my hope that we do what we can by being aware of the living conditions of these poor intelligent animals. Hopefully we can get more awareness of this situation by facebooking it, twittering it, the photo does speak volumes. Perhaps Alicia will feature it on her blog and we can certainly write our congressmen to ban this practice of treating these animals as we are seeing some small changes in the chicken industry. We have to become a voice for the animals as no one hears them in their pens. It breaks my heart as well and I think about these situations every day and try to think of ways that I can help them. Awareness and sharing the photo seems to be a good way to inform people and some people will make their feelings heard. It only takes a few minutes to write or post these things so others can do the same. We have to demand change from the Confined Animal Factory Operations that it is inhumane.
This is how we can help make changes for the animals living conditions. I encourage people to do something. This is what I strive to do.
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I have been writing to my representatives regarding H.R. 3798, which appears to be the same as this bill introduced to the Senate. My responses have always been that "the bill has been referred to the House Committee on Agriculture, and should they have an opportunity to vote on this legislation that they will be sure to keep my thoughtful comments in mind."
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sorry i'm german i'm not allowed to vote for the hens, but i cross my fingers that you'll make it for them! i feel so sorry for this animals, and i know i'm vegan i don't hurt them, but i can not understand that most people just don't care... i also liked to eat meat and eggs and all this animal products, but after thinking about that i stopped. i'd like to arouse all of them but how?
pls have a kind look at my blog
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Just sent notes to both senators- I hope Senator Feinstein gets the support she needs to help these animals.
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I wrote my senator a personal email for the first time. I really feel for these mother hens, among all the rest of our animal friends. 75 billion eggs are produced in the U.S. each year, which is 10% of the world's supply. Each of our 280 million egg-laying hens produces between 250 and 300 eggs per year. One would think that they would be given much more respect than they are currently.
If we intend to help the animal kingdom grow, and it will grow, as it has purposes greater than being meat on our plates, we must acknowledge all that the animal kingdom does for us, what it provides us with, what lives it suffers for us, and its inherent intelligence. Once humanity acknowledges this incredible sacrifice with gratitude, it should be impossible to continue cruel industrial animal production methods, instead the life of each animal would be celebrated equally. We can reciprocate the incredible generosity of these animals by giving them the respect and acknowledgement they deserve.
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Rhonda, I tried to sign the petition but it was closed. Maybe there is something else we can do? That picture of the piggies made me want to cry. I am so sick of the suffering just so people can eat meat. So much selfishness.
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I sent my emails. Thanks for for the action alert and please let us know if there is anything else we can do for this very worthy cause.
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The petition to Obama to stop the tiny pins for pigs. It is worth reading the short article to be informed and to hopefully do something to help these intelligent beings that God created them to be. Not stuck in a pin they can move in.https://www.change.org/petitions/president-obama-end-factory-farming?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=share_button_modal
We can share this info on our FB and Pinterest and blogs to help others be aware and try to stop this treatment.
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The animal issue most important to me is helping animals used for food especially chickens because their numbers are so great and their suffering is so great. (99% of all animals used, abused and killed are killed for food. If you add up all the other forms of animal use/abuse ,together they total 1 %!) Chickens make up the vast majority of land animals used for food and birds have no legal protection. They are exempt from the Humane Slaughter Act. So helping chickens is most important to me. Thanks for posting about chickens Alicia. These poor beings suffer so badly and need our help.
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