Ban Foie Gras!

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Last month, we asked you to contact your federal senators to protect pigs from
high-speed slaughter. Earlier this year, the United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) issued a final rule removing all line speed limits and
allowing pig slaughterhouses across the country to police themselves – leaving
millions of pigs vulnerable to increased suffering and terror.

Now we need you to urge all members of Congress to keep language from the House
Agriculture Appropriations bill in the final 2020 budget that would block
funding for the implementation of this rule.

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TAKE ACTION [[link removed]]This rule expands a problematic pilot program that allowed five of the nation’s
largest pig slaughterhouses to increase the speed at which pigs are slaughtered.
At one of these plants, killing pigs for Hormel Foods products like Spam and
Natural Choice deli meats, an undercover investigation documented horrific abuse
as employees struggled to keep up – including illegally dragging, kicking,
beating and excessively shocking pigs with electric prods. Other evidence has
confirmed numerous instances of pigs who have not been rendered unconscious
before being killed – resulting in animals being boiled alive in scalding tanks
and left to bleed out.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund submitted comments to the USDA, urging the agency
not to go forward with this dangerous rule. We’re committed to continuing to
fight it through every possible avenue. Help us protect pigs and contact your
federal legislators today.

For the animals,

Stephen Wells
Executive Director



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