FOA Friends of
Animals
July 2018
The extent to which proponents are willing to go to mislead California voters continues to be deeply troubling. Nevertheless, we’re confident that California voters won’t be fooled and that this fraudulent initiative will be decisively rejected.
The organization Mercy for Animals (MFA) has released undercover footage
showing the brutal mistreatment of pigs and piglets at Tosh Farms in
Kentucky. But Friends of Animals and the Humane Farming Association objects
to attempts to exploit the abuses shown in the video to promote Proposition
12, a controversial ballot measure introduced by the Humane Society of the
United States in California.
“We applaud MFA for documenting animal cruelty, but we strongly condemn its
utterly false claims that California’s Proposition 12 would prevent the
brutality highlighted in its video. The fact is, Proposition 12 allows those
abuses to continue,” said Bradley Miller, national director of the Humane
Farming Association.
“Friends of Animals does not believe in regulating the atrocities of animal
farming. Veganism is at the core of our animal advocacy. But Proposition 12
is so bad it even fails as a regulation, which is why even many animal
welfare people oppose it,” said Priscilla Feral, president of Friends of
Animals. “Proposition 12 won’t do anything to spare the lives of animals—the
only thing that will is adopting a plant-based lifestyle where animals are
removed from what you wear and what you eat.”
This is what will happen if this measure is approved by California voters in
November:
“The abuses shown in the video (the killing, beating, throwing, castration, and overall brutal handling of pigs and piglets) have absolutely nothing to do with Proposition 12,” said Miller.
“It would increase the sale of factory farmed pork (and veal) by tricking people into think it’s all humane raised and that Prop 12 ended ‘the worst forms of factory farming’ as proponents claim. This is exactly what happened with eggs in California after Prop 2—people were told that all California hens were ‘cage free’ when, in fact, the hens were, and still are, in cages.”
Miller added: “The extent to which proponents are willing to go to mislead California voters continues to be deeply troubling. Nevertheless, we’re confident that California voters won’t be fooled and that this fraudulent initiative will be decisively rejected.”
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