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Please Help IDA Fight Passage of the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2013!

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Originally Posted: May 31, 2013

Please Help IDA Fight Passage of the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2013!

[Ed. Note: For more, visit The Rotten Egg Bill aka “The Screaming Hen Bill” Needs Our Help To Be Defeated!]

FROM In Defense of Animals (IDA)

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This legislation (S. 820 and H.R. 1731) seeks to establish "enriched" battery cages for egg-laying hens as a national standard that cannot be changed by individual states or by public vote. Hens should not be confined to battery cages, "enriched" or not.

Sign an online petition (copy/paste URL into your browser) [Valid U.S. address is required - P.O. Boxes cannot be used.]:
https://secure2.convio.net/ida/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2465&JServSessionIdr004=i9fhvs88j2.app246b

And/or better yet, make direct contact:

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INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS

Ninety-five percent of egg-laying hens spend their entire short, miserable lives crammed into tiny cages with as many as ten hens per cage. Battery cages are stacked on top of one another and are packed into windowless sheds with thousands of hens per shed. Hens are so confined in battery cages that each bird has less than half the size of a sheet of paper to herself. These hens never get to breathe fresh air, see or feel the sunlight, nest, forage, or even turn around.

As one of your constituents and a supporter of In Defense of Animals, I am writing to tell you that I oppose the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2013, S. 820 and H.R. 1731. If this bill is passed into law, it will institutionalize the cruel confinement of egg-laying hens in battery cages throughout the United States.

Ninety-five percent of egg-laying hens spend their entire short, miserable lives crammed into tiny cages with as many as ten hens per cage. Battery cages are stacked on top of one another and are packed into windowless sheds with thousands of hens per shed. Hens are so confined in battery cages that each bird has less than the size of a sheet of paper to herself. These hens never get to breathe fresh air, see the sunlight, nest, forage, or even turn around.

This legislation seeks to establish "enriched" battery cages for egg-laying hens as a national standard that cannot be changed by individual states or by public vote. Hens should not be confined to battery cages, "enriched" or not. Please oppose the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2013. Thank you.

Sincerely...


Thank you for everything you do for animals!


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