𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓: 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚'𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟐

Crammed into tiny, filthy cages. Chained up to tiny stalls. Never seeing sunlight before they’re mercilessly slaughtered. This is the reality that many pigs are facing on factory farms.

Pigs, and other farm animals, are often being forced into these HORRIFYING living conditions because Big Meat and Dairy corporations only see them as a means for profit. With California’s commonsense farm animal protection law under attack, we could see even more cruelty on factory farms.

𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞 𝟏 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟗𝟐 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐝𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬?

Vegan and not vegan

At an otherwise wonderful event, you see a table with sandwiches filled mostly with ham and a small sampling of sandwiches filled with egg salad plus a really delicious pasta and veggie salad.  You don't see the ice cream--from cows separated from their calves after giving birth.    Once again a "progressive" organization has failed the animal-welfare-environmental awareness test, and it's ironic that Jodi, the one being honored, is a vegetarian (for health reasons). I'm sure she didn't give it a thought, but of course, I did! I'd met for the first time and really liked a concerned environmentalist who talked a lot on our trip to Sacramento about what we need to do for the environment. When I mentioned diet, I could tell that wasn't on her list. She had a ham sandwich. I had the delicious salad. But one thing I noticed:  There were many more sandwiches with ham than with egg salad leftover at the end of the evening.  Was that because they provided so many more or because a lot of people really do prefer not to eat dead animals whose natural instincts had been suppressed during their lifetime?