Ending factory farming
I got an email from PETA and found this part enlightening:
"Your support is helping PETA transform the entire animal agriculture industry. For example, PETA has worked behind the scenes with Burger King for the past six years. As a result of our efforts, the company recently announced a series of animal welfare reforms that are changing the face of commercial animal farming.
Burger King will now start purchasing more of its animal products from farms that do not confine hens to cruel battery cages or keep sows trapped in hideous gestation crates. The company is also rewarding its suppliers for adopting a much less cruel method of chicken slaughter. These changes will mean less painful lives and deaths for billions of animals.
In response to Burger King's and other companies' new purchasing demands, Smithfield Foods—the largest pork supplier in the world—announced that it will phase out the use of all gestation crates in its farms. Just a few days later, Canada's largest pork producer, Maple Leaf Foods, announced that it will follow suit. Almost simultaneously, Cargill Foods—another of the world's biggest pork producers—pledged to stop using gestation crates in half its farms immediately."
Good news! If you didn't get the email and want me to forward the whole thing to you, let me know. I warn you, though, that the rest of it is a plea for donations. BTW, I won't be eating at Burger King because they are still killing the cows and probably inhumanely too. Humane slaughter is an oxymoron in my opinion!
that is fantastic!! you know how sometimes people have that one obnoxious friend, but in the end you always seem to have a good time with them. peta is like that for me. i really dont like their style. but i like what they have accomplished. and i like my obnoxious friends too!!!
thanks for posting that info!
deep down i kind of hope that meat eaters dont find that information. it makes me worried that theyll think that 'everything is better now'. which it isnt. its just getting closer.
I was just reading similar good news in the spring issue of All Animals (from the Humane Society of the United States).
Here's more info: http://www.hsus.org/farm/news/ournews/tide_turning_for_farm_animals.html
BTW, if you don't like PETA's style, try HSUS. They work on many of the same issues, but I feel like HSUS might have a better reputation with the mainstream (i.e. less likely to be dismissed as crazies). But I think PETA does great work too, of course.
that is fantastic!! you know how sometimes people have that one obnoxious friend, but in the end you always seem to have a good time with them. peta is like that for me. i really dont like their style. but i like what they have accomplished. and i like my obnoxious friends too!!!
This is a great analogy! I love it! A lot of times, I don't like their way of going about things. Or maybe it isn't peta in general, but just a few select individuals who cross the line IMO. But in the end, I like the result.