California: PLEASE VOTE YES on PROP 2:

[amborin]

Voting YES! on Prop 2...








"Prevents cruelty to animals.
It’s simply wrong to confine calves raised for veal, breeding pigs, and egg-laying hens in tiny cages barely larger than their bodies. We wouldn’t force our pets to live in filthy, cramped cages for their whole lives, and we shouldn’t force farm animals to endure such suffering and misery. All animals, including those raised for food, deserve humane treatment.


Veal crates.
In order to produce veal, most calves are taken from their mothers when they are just hours or days old and then tethered by their necks in crates too narrow for them to turn around or even lie down comfortably. Virtually immobilized and prevented from engaging in natural behavior, they suffer immensely.

Gestation crates.
During nearly their entire four-month pregnancies, millions of female pigs used for breeding are confined in barren gestation crates – individual, metal stalls only two-feet wide. The crates are so small that the animals cannot even turn around. Barely able to move, these highly intelligent and social animals suffer terribly and develop crippling joint disorders and lameness.

Battery cages.
Nationwide, hundreds of millions of egg‐laying hens are confined in tiny, barren, battery cages so small that the birds can’t spread their wings, nest, dust-bathe, perch, or even walk more than a few painful steps. Each caged hen has less space than a sheet of letter‐sized paper on which to live for more than a year before she is killed.


Is a modest and common-sense reform.
Because the intensive confinement of calves, pigs, and egg-laying hens in crates and cages causes painful and severe welfare problems, the entire European Union has already banned veal crates and is phasing out gestation crates and barren battery cages. The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production – an independent panel chaired by former Kansas Governor John Carlin and including former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman, among its prestigious Commissioners – said that Prop 2 includes “the types of modest animal welfare public policy improvements that the Commissioners recommend implementing.”

Is supported by leading animal welfare advocates.
Prop 2 is endorsed by more than 100 animal protection charities, including many California humane societies and SPCAs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, and beyond; and the State Humane Association of California. Leaders like The Humane Society of the United States, Farm Sanctuary, Best Friends Animal Society, and the California Veterinary Medical Association recommend voting YES! on Prop 2."

<http://www.humanecalifornia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100&Itemid=115>

[FreeState]

1. Done :) and No on 4 and No On 8! n/t

[amborin]

4. thanks, and No on 4 and No on 8!

[Arugula Latte]

2. Yes! Please!

This torture of animals needs to be STOPPED.

:kick:

[EFerrari]

3. Done!

:hi:

[jsmirman]

5. Yes, Please!!!!! It's the right thing to do.

Please don't forget the animals when we look towards a new era of decency.

It's also a positive measure for your health.

Please, please vote yes on Prop 2!

[Bigleaf]

6. Absolutely. Vote YES! on 2. My wife, who has worked very hard to get this passed, and I

are going to the victory party Wednesday evening. I have NO use for anyone who is against Prop 2.

[ieoeja]

7. You do realize that hogs are kept in gestation crates to stop them eating their young? n/t

[SoCalDemocrat]

15. That is not the reason

There is no reason to keep them in gestation crats more than 4 weeks in any event.

Pigs are kept in these crates because they are stressed out and will fight with other pigs when placed in crowded conditions. There is also concern they could lie down and crush the babies, but at least one study was done showing this is not the case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestation_crates

[bmartello]

8. promise and no on 4 and no on 8! n/t

[Vektor]

9. Already did!

Thanks for spreading the word.

[nichomachus]

10. Done -- along with No on 4 and No on Hate n/t

[dhill926]

11. will do......

bright and early tomorrow.....

[Ladyhawk]

12. Already done. n/t

[K8-EEE]

13. Yes please!!! NO ON (H)8 YES ON 2!!!

Kicked and recommended!

[Hellataz]

14. Planning on it! And Yes also Vote NO on 8!

I'm not a vegetarian, but I do believe that all animals that are bred and raised to provide us with milk and eggs and other products should be treated well.
Who the hell cares if it raises the price of eggs a penny? If these animals spend their day provide food for us, they deserve some respect and some extra space to move around.

[David__77]

16. I will first thing in the morning.

It's marked on my ballot.