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Should Massachusetts farm animals be allowed room to move?

In modern animal agriculture, most egg laying hens are stuffed in cages that are so small they have less space than a sheet of notebook paper to stand on. Meanwhile, most breeding sows and veal calves spend nearly their entire lives in crates barely larger than their own bodies. As a result of these inhumane confinement practices, countless thousands of animals in your state suffer debilitating physical disorders and nearly constant psychological anguish.

Representative Pam Richardson has introduced House Bill 815 to ban these factory farm cruelties in Massachusetts. If signed into law, HB 815 would ensure that battery cages for egg laying hens, veal crates for calves, and gestation crates for pregnant pigs become a thing of the past. Thanks to the overwhelming success of a ballot initiative known as Proposition 2, California became the first state to pass a ban on all three of these cruel confinement systems in 2008. In October 2010, Michigan became the second state to ban all three systems. With your help, Massachusetts could be added to the growing list of states that have banned cruel confinement systems: Florida, Arizona, Oregon, Colorado, California, Michigan, and Maine.

As you read this, well-connected lobbyists hired by industrial animal agriculture are plotting to kill this legislation While Farm Sanctuary testified at a recent hearing on the bill, we need your help and your voices of compassion and common sense to make sure this bill moves forward. Animals were meant to walk and move and stretch their limbs, not suffer in crates and cages for the convenience and padded profits of agribusiness. Call your representative now, and ask him or her to support HB 815!

You Can Help:

Contact your representative today to urge support for HB 815!  

Send a quick and easy e-mail for the animals. Remember to personalize the letter with your own words to have more impact.

After you send your e-mail and identify your state representative, follow up with a phone call simply stating your support for HB 815.