The condition that animals live in on factory farms are dismal, at best. Treated solely as commodities, male calves are quarantined to veal crates where they will live for a few weeks until they are sent to slaughter. Breeding pigs live similarly constrained in gestation crates, most pigs raised in this manner never even get to see their tails because they can’t turn around.
For any animal lover this is a hard reality to face, so animal advocates world over have set out to have these cruel crates banned from the industry. Most recently, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is joining the fight to end the use of veal and gestation crates in the state of Massachusetts.
In a statement to the Humane Society if the United States, Tyler explains that his band, Aerosmith was formed in Massachusetts, making this issue on that is close to his heart. Tyler notes that Massachusetts is, “known for being ahead of the curve on important progressive issues,” and he is in full support of the new legislation, “S.2232, a critical bill that would ban the extreme confinement of animals used for food.”
As Tyler states, “veal crates and gestation crates cause unspeakable suffering and with the success of crate-free environments, they are proven unnecessary.”
Alexis Fox, the Massachusetts state director of HSUS explains that the bill is, “supported by a broad coalition of farmers, veterinarians, public health experts, chefs, environmental protection organizations, animal lovers and Steven Tyler.”
To learn more about the bill and what you can do to see this legislation passes, click here.
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From what I understand in this article and additional information about the bill, there is no mention of stopping the slaughter of these poor babies. So what have we done? Baby calves will be stolen from their mothers at birth and will wait in lonely stalls until we slaughter them? Who gave any of us the right to slaughter animals at all? We must protect them, not slaughter them! This mass murder of animals for a moment\’s pleasure on the dinner plate is an atrocity. Please, stop the killing of all animals! Anybody killing (or paying someone else to kill) animals and eating them will not be forgiven by future generations who will look at us as barbarians, worse than any generation before us. There is zero excuse to kill animals. Period.
I just came upon this news about Steven Tyler…way to go! You are one fine fellow! God bless you. I go along with you Barbara Paz! No reason whatsoever!
Animals kill animals in the wild, many of the \’prey\’ eaten alive. And I doubt future generations stop eating meat. Don\’t be such an idiot.
Agreed, Barbara. And for Lee below, animals kill other animals to survive and because in some cases, that their only resource to survive. On the other hand, we as humans have myriad resources for our survival and none of them has to involve the cruel enslavement and mass slaughtering of other animal species.
We humans are animals ourselves, but we have reasoning, something that allows us to make better choices and be a responsible steward of the world and the creatures that inhabit it. So don\’t be such a hard-ass.
You are 100% correct, Barbara, thanks for saying it so I didn\’t have to. Go vegan and stay with it, everyone…that\’s the only real solution to this problem.
Way to go Steven Tyler…love you before but more now…that you are the man to step up and speak for these helpless animals, maybe just maybe they will listen….