Dear Friend, A whistleblower told us that they could smell the misery on the farm even before they could see it. Inside a sprawling Indiana farm, piglets just hours old lay dead or dying on a filthy floor, barely inches above a massive lagoon overflowing with the waste of thousands of abused animals. Mother pigs, crammed inside metal crates, lay helpless while their babies cried out in agony just out of their reach. "I can still hear them screaming in their pain," the whistleblower wrote in a letter to state police. "At East Fork Farms there is nothing but fear and distress," the whistleblower wrote. "Pain, injury and disease [are] everywhere." Horrifying conditions like these are common in the relentlessly cruel global meat industry. Right now, nearly a billion sensitive pigs, cows, chickens, and other animals are trapped in utter misery and extreme filth—denied affection, proper veterinary care, and everything that's natural and important to them. We can't allow such outrageous neglect and abuse to go on—and as a PETA member for 2020, you can help us stop it. A day after hearing from PETA, JBS USA—a subsidiary of the world's largest slaughterer of farmed animals—banned this hideous farm from its supply chain. Today, hundreds of thousands of people have viewed the disturbing footage online, and orders of our popular free vegan starter kit have been booming as consumers consider who suffered for the flesh on their plates. We're determined to stop such cruelty everywhere we find it. The progress we make in doing so depends on the commitment of caring people who share our drive to make this a better, kinder world for all beings. Thank you so much for all that you do for animals. Sincerely, |
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