Target: Bryan Humphreys, Chief Executive Officer of the National Pork Producers Council
Goal: Stop contesting a law that prohibits pigs from being kept in small, metal gestation crates.
Gestation crates are small, metal enclosures that are often used on pork farms throughout the U.S. and other nations. Typically, these cages are used to restrain pregnant or nursing female pigs who, viewed as breeding vessels, are typically kept in these crates all their lives. Gestation crates are so small that these poor mother pigs can’t even turn around, and many times, they develop arthritis or other health complications due to an inability to stretch their legs.
California’s Proposition 12 is a law that bans the sale of meat and eggs from animals raised using extreme methods of confinement, thereby banning battery cages and gestation crates. However, the pork industry has been fighting this legislation since its introduction in 2018 and, in March, the Supreme Court agreed to hear its case. If decided that this law is unconstitutional, it will subject hundreds of thousands of pigs to unnecessary, prolonged suffering.
Sign this petition to demand the National Pork Producers Council stop fighting Proposition 12 and prioritize compassion for other living beings over the greed of large corporations.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Humphreys,
California’s Proposition 12 has been one of few crucial protections for animals abused on factory farms. Its ban on extreme methods of confinement–including battery cages and gestation crates–has saved chickens and pigs from cruel fates, stuck in cages barely large enough to stand. This law, however, has come under scrutiny from members of the pork industry who want to strip these farm animals of even their most fundamental rights.
We are asking you to stop fighting California’s Proposition. The pork industry does enough damage to these fragile beings and there is no need to further their suffering.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Farm Sanctuary
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Is the reason the pork industry continues to protest this law because no one enjoys being told what to do? Do they feel no law will tell anyone how to run their business? Perhaps the pork industry has a sadistic streak. I wish I knew the answers. Why are you so against this law? Be a Trail Blazer for goodness sakes! How would you feel if humans were kept in these conditions? This is shameful.
Lilypearl
Ιf pigs are called animals, what are those who confine the animals called?
EVIL POS.
AMEN-they are the savages; the true beasts.
If people truly acted “like animals”. the world would be beyond a better place.
!!! Very good !
Shameful and disgraceful! Stuff the persons responsible into cramped cages so that they can get a taste of their own medicine!
Stop eating pork products. The most effective way to influence an industry/corporation is to stop buying their “stuff”.
I was going to post this but you beat me to it! Thank you 🙂
Jepp! 👍👍👍
This cruelty should not be going on today in this country, thought we could do better and be an example to the rest of the world that animals should be treated free of cruelty. Very sad to see how these poor animals are being treated, cramped in a steel pen with no room to move and be treated so poorly. It doesn’t have to be this way, I urge people who care to speak up for the voiceless.
The cruelty used with these highly intelligent animals is repulsive! And people wonder why I became vegetarian almost 50 years ago!
Same as me and i am a lot healthier for it too compared to the meat eaters i know
This is so horrific savagery. They have no room to move and soft surface to lay on!!!
This is beyond animal cruelty and these places SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN AND ALL THE PERSONS INVOLVED SHOULD BE CHARGED AND FINED.
YES stop fighting California’s Proposition BUT MORE THAN THAT SHOW HUMANITY/ COMPASSION TO THESE SWEET BEINGS.
…If not I hope you all have a fate worse than death….You so deserve it and worse. You’ve carved you one way ticket to hell…
This is HEINOUS!!! I hate humanity.
I definitely agree with your comment.
This is HEINOUS!!! I hate humanity.
The vile and evil psychopathic lowlife human monsters need to be eradicated from our Planet. No precious and innocent helpless animal (SENTIENT BEING) is safe from the vile and evil rotten Human monsters.
I absolutely hate and despise the Human monsters. The vilest of species on our Planet.
The people that think this treatment to innocent animals are the ones that should have to be put through the same thing. It’s no wonder I hate a whole lot of humans.
And so do I hate a the vile and evil psychopathic humans on our Planet. The lowlife human species is the vilest of all living species on our Planet.
They must be eradicated from our Planet.
These baby and mother pigs need exercise daily and much better living conditions than the stupid tiny cages offer!!!
Would you do that to your dog or cat?
Sick, disgusting way to care for live beings.
Humans that are cruel to God’s creations no doubt will be judged harshly with no mercy when it comes time for their judgment
Two years ago (maybe 3) an animal welfare activist demanded to know why these poor animals are forced into these horrific and sadistic cages that don’t even let the sow turn around or stand up and often result in dead piglets when the poor animals cannot even roll away to avoid crushing their babies. The reply from the then president of the National Pork Producers Council had this to say: Who asked them if they wanted to turn around? And then he laughed and laughed. I haven’t touched pork in any form since then. The animals they are abusing to line their pockets and make them all rich mean nothing to them at all and without severe pressure and though laws this will not change.
I have not eaten pork for many years due to this injustice and many others that are forced upon pigs. Imagine being hugely pregnant and not being able to move! This is horrendous! I once commented on the cruelty of gestation crates to a young farmer at my State Fair. He just said that it was the only way to raise the pigs. If every farmer believes this, then this abuse will never end. Apparently knowledge won’t change farmers’ minds, so there really do need to be laws against all forms of animal abuse.
WHAT A DISGUTING DESPICABLE SON OF A BITCH!
HOW COULD HE HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO BE PRESIDENT … IGNORANT, ILL-BORN, SADISTIC PIECE OF SHIT!
GO VEGAN!
Everything else is wishful-thinking, hypocrisy and lies! This petition proves my statement.
We humans simply do not deserve the wonderful gift of animals.
And Pigs are smarter than Dogs! They are fully aware of what is being done to them. Any animals mind goes insane with this kind of treatment. They are ALL better than us…HUMANS ARE THE WORSE SPECIES ON THE PLANET!
All animals, including pigs and human beings, deserve a life without fear, stress and pain.
Stop eating animals.
Agree all comments put these fuckers in a cage see how they feel. Stop now cruel bastards and so are laws who allow this kock them all in small cages for a few years not be able to move. This world is nothing but cruel money hungry cunts. Dont give a fuck about animals .