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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.
[[link removed]] 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.
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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. DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT
[[link removed]] 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.
[[link removed]] For the animals,

Alicia Prygoski
Legislative Affairs Manager



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