Petition: Ban Gestation Crates That Imprison Pigs for Constant Breeding!

Can you imagine living in a tiny cage where you can barely turn around? To make matters worse, you’re pregnant and confined to that small space. Then you give birth and shortly after you must go through that process over and over again. That is the life of a sow in a factory farm.

As Civil Eats explains: “For the nearly four-month duration of her pregnancy, each sow lives, eats, and sleeps in a roughly two-and-half-by-seven-foot stall that does not allow her to walk, turn around, or socialize. After giving birth and living in a slightly larger farrowing crate for a month, she is impregnated again and returned to the stall. The cycle is repeated for three to four years until her production drops off, and she is slaughtered for breakfast sausage.”

Josh Balk, vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) told Civil Eats: “These animals are raised like they’re parked cars, side by side, cage next to cage in a giant warehouse. If this practice was done to dogs or cats, it would be illegal. But it became standard in the pork industry.”

This terrible practice is still legal in 38 states. The following states have either banned or are phasing out the inhumane and cruel use of gestation crates:

• Arizona
• California
• Colorado
• Florida
• Kentucky
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Rhode Island
• Washington

This cruelty is still legal in the other 38 states. Sign this petition demanding legislation to end it!

Sign these other petitions to protect animals in factory farming from cruel practices like this:

• End Cruel Chick Culling and Maceration
• End Factory Farming in the United States
• Eliminate Ag-Gag Laws Which Prevent Footage of Cruelty in Animal Agriculture Industry to be Released to the Public

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