John,
Earlier this year, a graphic video was released after a factory farm whistleblower came forward in Iowa exposing the cruel reality of “depopulation,” a term the animal agriculture industry uses to describe its mass killings of farmed animals. This video showed the reality of a depopulation method called ventilation shutdown. In the video, pigs screamed out in distress as they were slowly cooked to death with high temperatures and steam over the course of many hours. Whatever the industry chooses to call it, these mass killings are torture for animals, plain and simple.
Most people can’t bear to confront the abuses on factory farms and in slaughterhouses. But, John, you’re not like most. As a supporter of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, you know that turning away is what the industry hopes you’ll do. But you won’t let them get away with it. |
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Unfortunately, the spread of COVID-19 has exacerbated the mass killings of farmed animals. But, thanks to a generous donor, when you join us to help win justice for farmed animals, your gift will be matched up to $100,000 — doubling your impact.
As you’ve seen in the news, COVID-19 has spread quickly throughout slaughterhouses and processing plants. Forced to work in cramped environments, over 40,000 slaughterhouse workers have tested positive for COVID-19, and 203 have already died. And when slaughterhouses temporarily shut down due to COVID-19 outbreaks, many animals were left in factory farms longer, growing larger and older than slaughterhouses could handle or the industry wanted. The industry responded by suffocating chickens with foam, gassing pigs with carbon dioxide, and using ventilation shutdown to bake animals alive. |
Killing farmed animals this way is, sadly, legal. Despite their vast numbers and the severity of abuse they suffer, farmed animals are exempt from most animal cruelty laws, so they receive only minimal legal protections.
But we are working with lawmakers to help pass laws to protect farmed animals from this kind of abuse.
Please help us fight for factory farmed animals by making a gift that will go twice as far today. |
For the animals,
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Alicia Prygoski
Legislative Affairs Manager
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