URGENT: Your Help Needed to Protect Pets in This Year's Farm Bill

[and-justice-for-all]

Your Help Needed to Protect Pets in This Year's Farm Bill
The Farm Bill comes up every five years or so in Congress, and historically has been a vehicle for numerous animal protection measures.

This year, the Israel-Doyle Amendment has been introduced to prohibit the use in research of dogs and cats obtained from random source dealers, who may steal pets and fraudulently obtain them through “free to good home” ads. It would also ban the use of live animals in sales demos of medical devices.

TAKE ACTION
Please make a brief, polite phone call to your U.S. Representative to urge support for the Israel-Doyle Amendment to protect pets. You can reach your Representative by calling the Capitol switchboard at [phone].
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/FED_2007_farmbill_amendments?rk=V7z%2d78E1%5fDs5E

After you make your phone call, fill in and submit the form on the right to automatically send an email to your Representative to reiterate your support for this amendment to help animals.

[and-justice-for-all]

1. NO ONE CARES ABOUT ANIMAL WELFARE???!

[catgirl]

2. I do! Thanks for this post!!

Also ask your rep to include ALL downed farm animals
in the bill. At present only cows are in it.

[catgirl]

3. Can you post this in the politics discussion section as well?

K&R

[and-justice-for-all]

6. Sure...nt

[flvegan]

4. Good post. If APHIS was worth a shit, this wouldn't be needed.

Thanks for posting this. Rec'd.

[LeftyMom]

5. kick for animals

:kick:

[peacebuzzard]

7. done. will also call my rep.

[AnExtremist]

8. Kick

:kick:

[catgirl]

9. Unfortunately the a-hole is going to veto it.

Can we impeach already?