Proposition 2 - Vote Yes!
Even if you don’t live in the great State of California, well, you should. At least just long enough so that you can vote yes on Proposition 2. In case you don’t know anything about the Proposition, here’s what it’s all about:
It will basically make it a law to end cruelty to animals on factory farms. Why this isn’t already an enforced law is way beyond me, but it’s better late than never. Animals in factory farms are kept confined in cages and pens their whole life, in areas too small to even stretch their limbs. And for what? After two or so years of that they’re sent off to be slaughtered for someone’s snack.
Instead of making vague comparisons about what it would be like for you to live in a small box for your entire life, here’s a video of what it’s like in the factories. It’s disturbing in some parts, but you at least owe it to the animals who give their lives everyday for this sort of thing:
It’s disgusting that there are people in this world that do this sort of thing to a living creature, but it’s just about as disgusting as people who don’t even care. Oprah did an inside report on factory farms and then later did a QA with Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society versus representatives of the Meat Industry and some others who don’t seem to care about the cruelty going on around them. It’s definitely worth a look (and no, I don’t watch Oprah or even have a TV for that matter):
Oprah and Lisa Ling’s Report on Factory Farming
Julie Buckner’s argument is that passing such a law to end animal abuse would cause serious space issues because of the need for all the extra land due to free range animals. She says,
Allowing chicken, hogs and cattle to have more space, Julie says, is a choice consumers can make already. “We can either buy animal products, if we so choose, and we can buy them at the cheapest, most affordable, safest cost, or we can choose to pay more for cage-free, free-range eggs and pork and cattle. And that’s a personal choice,” she says. “But there will not be a choice after this Proposition 2.”
Yeah, it’s not personal choice - it’s about what’s right or wrong. How about we pass a proposition to relocate Julie from her home into a crate for the rest of her life? I’d love to vote yes on that one. It would also solve the “problem” of all the space we would lose giving the farm animals a place to move around.
I’m not going to tell you that you shouldn’t eat meat (I’ll do that in other articles), but I will tell you that if you ARE going to eat meat that you should at least be respectful to the animal who gave it’s life to you for a meal by voting yes on Proposition 2. They’ll be able to spend their lives in freedom instead of in a cage barely larger than their bodies.
For more information and to support Proposition 2, please visit the Yes On Prop 2 website.
Edit: This is pretty much my first post on here and it was worded rather strongly before. I toned it down just a bit : D
