Pamela Hart Animal Legal Defense Fund aldf.org

Animal Protection Perspective on CAFOs

http://brianstpierretraining.com/index.php/vegetarian-musings-part-1/

Animal suffering in CAFOs: Intensive confinement- overcrowding, no natural behaviors, cant move freely; Mutilations: debeaking, dehorning, castration, tail docking, toe clipping, without anesthesia or pain killers; and Breeding to maximize output: massive breasts of turkeys, chickens grow too fast, dairy cows

Sows in intensive confinement

http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/pig-gest-01.jpg

http://planetoftheanimals.blogspot.com

Photo: http://www.cafothebook.org/theissue_2.htm#up

Broiler chickens:

Photo: Farm Sanctuary

Photo: Occupy for Animals

Egg laying hens in battery cages

Photo: Farm Sanctuary

Dead and dying male chicks

Photo: Rainforest Action Network, http://understory.ran.org/2011/08/19/cargill% E2%80%99s-not-so-cold-turkey-bad-habits-in-the-global-food-chain/

http://www.naturalgrocers.com/nutrition/dispelling-myths-about-industrial-animal-meat-system

Photo: Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage

Feedlot

http://wisconsin.sierraclub.org/issues/water.asp

http://harmonist.us/2010/06/fighting-cafos/

Photo: CAFO, http://www.cafothebook.org/theissue_4.htm#up

Dairy cow

Calves being raised for veal

Photo: Farm Sanctuary

Do the following laws protect animals in CAFOs? Animal Welfare Act, 7 USCS 2132(g) The term animal excludes (3) other farm animals, such as, but not limited to livestock or poultry, used or intended for use as food or fiber, or livestock or poultry used or intended for use for improving animal nutrition, breeding, management, or production efficiency, or for improving the quality of food or fiber. Humane Transport Act - 28 Hour Law, 49 USC 80502 Someone transporting animals across state lines may not confine the animals for more than 28 hours. --Limited to transport of farmed animals Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act, 7 USC 1901-1907 - Requires that livestock be quickly rendered insensible to pain before being slaughtered. Excludes poultry and animals killed for ritual slaughter. --Only applies to slaughter State anti-cruelty laws: majority specifically exempt farmed animals or customary, standard husbandry practices (dehorning, debeaking, castration, gestation and farrowing crates, tail docking, toe clipping)

Initiative process has been a game changer. 2002: Florida bans gestation crates for pigs. 2004: California bans sale and production of foie gras. 2006 Arizona bans gestation crates, veal crates. 2007: Oregon Legislature bans gestation crates. 2008: California bans gestation crates, veal crates, and battery cages. 2008: Colorado bans gestation crates and veal crates. 2009: Maine bans gestation crates. 2009: Michigan bans gestation crates and veal crates. 2009: California bans tail docking of cattle. 2010: Ohio Farm Bureau adopted regulations banning gestation crates and veal crates, and put a moratorium on the construction of new battery cage egg facilities in that state. 2010: California Legislature passes Health & Safety Code 25996: shelled eggs sold in CA must comply with Prop. 2 standards. 2012: Rhode Island bans gestation & veal crates, tail docking.