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FIRST CALL TO WORLD FARM ANIMALS DAY 2000
World Farm Animals Day
World Farm Animals Day (October 2nd) marks Gandhi's birthday with vigils and other somber events memorializing the 9 billion animals who are abused and killed each year in slaughterhouses, stockyards and factory farms
FARM requests your participation in the 18th annual observance of
World Farm Animals Day. This year's theme is "Putting Farmed
Animals Into Politics." The purpose is to raise the awareness of
all candidates for public office and their constituents to the
issues and tragedy of animal agriculture.
FARM will seek the candidates' position on specific farm animal
issues and will circulate their responses among concerned
folks in their voting districts. FARM will urge animal activists
to collect funds and votes for the candidate(s) who support our
position.
The following issues will be pursued:
Ø Ban of veal crates
Ø Ban of sow gestation stalls
Ø Ban of battery cages
Ø Ban of forced molting of laying hens
Ø Enactment of Downed Animals Protection Act
Ø Funding and enforcement of Humane Methods of Slaughter Act
Ø Phasing out subsidies for large factory farms
Ø Enforcement of environmental pollution regulation of factory
farms
Ø Enforcement of controls on antibiotics use in factory farms
Ø Provision of plant-based foods in the National School Lunch
menu
Activists will be encouraged to participate in political events
and to set up information tables with background information and
petition sheets on these issues. FARM will provide display
materials including banners, posters and photographs documenting animal
suffering in factory farms and slaughterhouses. FARM will
publicize the observance to the national media. FARM has already
started the effort by sending a team to the Democratic National
Convention.
Please e-mail FARM at wfad@farmusa.org or call 1-888-FARM-USA for
a free Action Kit. Our WFAD web site should be ready soon.
Thank you, AlexH.
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http://www.farmusa.org 1-888-FARM USA
wfad@farmusa.org
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