Ridglan is closing down, and all the dogs should soon be freed! I just posted this to our rescuer network.
This would not have happened without our supporters on social media. Y'all were a key part of this—and will be a key part of the victories to come!
In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.
This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.
The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.
A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.
These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.
They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.
They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.
Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:
> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”
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The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.
It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.
SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).
The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.
With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.
Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.
It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.
All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.
That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.
If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.
The Pentagon has burned through your taxpayer dollars to burn rats in overseas labs. Experimenters funded by the @DeptofWar haven’t only hurt rats, they’ve even intentionally given dogs heart disease.
Tell the Pentagon to stop funding overseas animal experiments👇 https://t.co/2Ryg08vbAc
BREAKING: New investigation of a Clover Sonoma supplier shows calves kicked in the face as their horn buds are painfully burned off.
Clover has long advertised the humane treatment of animals at their facilities, striving to even create the false impression that they don’t use factory farms at all. In reality, they’re linked to large factory operations like Double D Dairy and Agresti Calf Ranch that, as this investigation shows, are prone to resorting to especially cruel practices in favor of efficiency. Clover briefly suspended their business with Double D Dairy since our investigation, but have already reinstated them. These findings raise serious concerns about Clover’s entire supply chain and California’s dairy industry as a whole.
It’s time to protect animals and phase out factory farming altogether. Sign our open letter at https://t.co/AVsUxF5kfS if you agree.
Horrifying! Monkeys are suffering in barren cages with Frankenstein-style brain implants at @YorkUniversity. Some have been confined & experimented on for nearly 2 decades 💔
We’re calling on the university to CLOSE this cruel lab!
https://t.co/McuXEc6Ry2
Publicamos una nueva investigación en Argentina realizada en colaboración con el fotoperiodista Aitor Garmendia que expone la crudeza del proceso de sustitución de gallinas en granjas industriales.
Las imágenes obtenidas muestran cómo, desde su llegada a las granjas, las gallinas son sometidas a un trato violento que les provoca dolor, lesiones y altos niveles de estrés 👇
https://t.co/BHkXdx8Gwg
#NoAlMaltratoAnimal
Helen spent years suffering at @ULLafayette's lab. Help stop this from happening again. Urge the @NIH to stop funding this lab ➡️ https://t.co/Dl0tAzHn60