Ballot Box Balderdash: Californians for Humane Farms
From the Dissident Voice
by Lee Hall
The goal, vaguely described, is to place a proposal on California’s November 2008 ballot to “prevent cruelty to calves raised for veal, pigs during pregnancy and egg-laying hens.” No, it’s not a spoof to dramatize voter ineffectuality. Endorsed by four SPCAs — Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Los Angeles — along with Global Exchange, Julia Butterfly Hill and Step-It-Up guru Bill McKibben, the campaign is out to collect 650,000 signatures by the end of February.
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On November 15, 2007, James wrote:
“Humane farming” is impossible since farming animals in and of itself is inhumane. People want to avoid animal abuse and at the same time continue to consume and wear animal products. That’s an illusion-it’s not possible.
If someone wants to avoid participation in animal abuse there is only one alternative and that is to stop consuming and wearing animal products.
On November 19, 2007, Marc Delaney wrote:
I believe that until government, in this case the federal government, steps in and mandates that animals are prohibited from use and consumption by humans, then there will continue to exist the use and consumption of animals by humans.
It was not until China’s government intervened in 1962 under Zhou Enlai, and then again in 1979 under Deng Xiaoping, that China was able to bring its mounting overpopulation under control with it One-child policies.
Similarly, I believe that it will take government intervention to ultimately bring the animal rights issue under control, and to end the mass production of animals for food and other consumer products.
Throughout history, humans have used and abused animals. This goes back to biblical times. It’s not new to the modera era. There’s no evidence that a purely vegan society has ever existed. It’s highly unlikely that a vegan society will come about any time in near future - unless it were government mandated.
On November 22, 2007, animal sounds wrote:
“People want to avoid animal abuse and at the same time continue to consume and wear animal products. That’s an illusion—it’s not possible.” In a way you are right, in the other side we are all consumers and hunted by marketing and capitalism what means we are manipulated to have it easy, fast and cheap. If ALL companies whould change to organic animal treatments we also whould have our easy fast and cheap meat in a much higher quality for the animals and for us. As long the companies don’t change their attitude nothing will change.
On November 30, 2007, James wrote:
Raising animals to be slaughtered or milked for profit first and then slaughtered or collecting eggs from them for profit and then slaughtering them is inhumane no matter how they are treated in the process. There’s no way to “sugar-coat” farming animals.