Vote Yes! for Humane

Treatment of Animals

THIS ELECTION DAY, Nov. 4, 2008, Californians will vote

on the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, a historic

ballot initiative to greatly improve the lives of millions

of farm animals. The measure would prevent three of factory

farming’s cruelest forms of confinement:

• Battery cages: tiny, barren enclosures that confine nearly

19 million egg-laying hens in California so tightly they can’t

walk or spread their wings. Each caged hen has less space

than a sheet of letter-sized paper.

• Gestation crates: 2-foot-wide metal cages that confine

thousands of breeding pigs in California for most of their

lives. The pigs can’t turn around or exercise.

• Veal crates: tiny wooden crates in which male calves are

trapped for most of their lives, unable to turn around for months on end.

A Growing Movement

Arizona, Florida, and Oregon have banned gestation crates, and Arizona has also banned

veal crates. Major California companies are moving away from supporting all three systems,

which have been banned in the European Union.

The Environment

Factory farms are among the most serious causes of resource depletion, pollution,

and global warming.

Public Health and Animal Health

Small farmers traditionally allow animals room to turn around and extend their limbs.

This effort will affect only industrialized factory farms, which not only cause severe

animal suffering but also squeeze family farmers out of business.

You Can Help

Californians for Humane Farms, sponsored by The Humane Society of the United States, Farm Sanctuary,

and other animal protection groups, family farmers, veterinarians, and public health professionals.

HumaneCalifornia.org

1. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper

(use this flyer for talking points).

2. Support the campaign financially and ask your

friends and family to do the same.

3. Download endorsement forms at HumaneCalifornia.org

and ask people at your veterinarian’s office, hair

salon, church, pet food store, and other businesses

and civic groups for their support.

for voting registration:

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm