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Talk Back: United for YES! on Prop 2
Today, the Field Poll, an independent and respected polling firm, released results on Prop 2 and had 60 percent of likely voters favoring the measure and 27 percent opposing it, with 13 percent undecided. While this snapshot of voter opinion is encouraging, we at The . . .
How You, Too, Can Help Prop 2
Today, the Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed from me on Prop 2, the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act. It makes the case for Prop 2 in 700 words, and it’s a piece you might think about forwarding to Californians still deciding how they’ll . . .
30 Seconds to Set the Record Straight
With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, the YES! on Prop 2 campaign is putting two new commercials (below) on the air in California. I am disgusted by the fear-mongering and falsehoods from our opponents’ campaign, and the ads here are designed . . .
Talk Back: Let’s Pass Prop 2
Two powerful forces converged recently to send readers to their keyboards. One of them is the power of television—with both Oprah and Ellen inviting me to appear on behalf of California’s landmark ballot measure, Proposition 2. The other force, just as powerful, is the suffering . . .
Proposition 2: Views Fit to Print
I’m convinced we’ll look back 30 or 40 years from now and wonder how our society could have tolerated the appalling abuses of animals on industrialized factory farms. It is a ruthless and miserly system, where animals are treated like things or units of production, . . .
A Calling for Compassion
Our Animals & Religion program recently launched All Creatures Great and Small, a campaign to remind people of faith about our personal and collective responsibilities to all of God’s creatures. The principles of compassion and mercy and other-centeredness are interwoven in the teachings of all . . .
Uncaging the Truth
This past week, I campaigned in California for Proposition 2—the November ballot initiative to combat the intensive confinement of certain animals on factory farms. In the middle of the trip was a public forum in San Luis Obispo before several members of the Senate and . . .
A Vote for 20 Million Animals
© COKYou can support the California initiative as a volunteeror with a donation. This year, we’ve passed about 50 laws in the states already. And last week, we passed three major federal bills as amendments to the Farm Bill. But arguably one of the most . . .
Animal Ambassadors
Animal cruelty knows no national boundaries. Almost all of the industries we confront are global in nature—animal fighting and puppy mills (see yesterday’s blog), trophy hunting and the fur trade, the exotic animal trade and factory farming, just to name a few. As a matter . . .
Force for Reform
The remarkable work of The HSUS’s Investigations unit was profiled today in the nation’s second-most popular newspaper, The Wall Street Journal. If you are a WSJ subscriber, you can read the article online. If not, keep an eye out for a newsstand copy. The piece, . . .
Allies for Change
The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International do not restrict their work to the boundaries of the United States. We live in the era of globalization, with information, commodities, people and animals moving routinely across national borders. With our economic and . . .
Winning the Fight for Animals in ’07
Last week, I wrote a letter to some HSUS supporters about some of our accomplishments for the year. In many respects, it’s been a remarkable year, and we’ve achieved many of our programmatic goals for the year. For those of you who relish the details, . . .
