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Campaigns Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act APRL is a proud member of Californians for Humane Farms, a coalition of animal protection groups working to pass the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act--an initiative that will appear on California's November 2008 ballot. APRL led the signature gathering phase of the campaign in Southern California, and volunteers in San Diego county gathered a whopping 96,000 signatures! It is cruel and inhumane to confine animals in cages so small they can’t turn around or stretch their limbs. Veal calves chained by the neck, pigs in metal cages barely larger than their bodies, hens with less space than a letter-sized sheet of paper. All animals deserve humane treatment, including those raised for food. Vote “YES” on the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act to protect nearly 20,000,000 animals in California from unacceptable abuse. We need your help to make this campaign a success for animals! Click here for how you can help! Stop "Foie Gras" APRL has conducted animal cruelty investigations of all three foie gras farms in the U.S. and several in France, revealing industrywide extreme cruelty. To produce foie gras, ducks are force fed massive quantities of dense feed through a large metal pipe thrust down their throats to expand their livers to ten times their natural size. The ducks are slaughtered right at the point where many of them begin to die from the process. APRL was instrumental in passing legislation in California and Chicago against this cruelty. The San Diego City Council has also commended APRL for its work on this issue and encouraged San Diegans to boycott this cruelty. An independent Zogby poll sponsored by APRL found that 85% of San Diegans want an immediate ban on the sale of foie gras without waiting for the statewide ban to go into effect in 2012. See BanFoieGras.org for more info on our campaign. College Outreach In collaboration with Vegan Outreach, APRL reaches out to college students, handing out pamphlets about the cruelty of factory farming, telling how each person has the power to boycott it simply by reducing or eliminating animal products in their diet. Leafleting with “Even if You Like Meat” brochures at college campuses is one of the most effective things advocates can do because (1) for every person who goes vegan, or for every two people who cut their animal product consumption in half, thousands of animals are spared from suffering, and (2) college students have been shown to be one of the most receptive audiences for receiving the message of compassion. Leafleting at colleges can be done alone or with a partner. It is often best during the daytime, Monday through Thursday. However, some campuses have nighttime classes as well. Locally, in San Diego County, our goal is to leaflet at every campus at least once per semester. If you would like to volunteer to leaflet in San Diego County, we can set you up with a partner, and get you trained to hit the streets! Email us if you can help get the word out through college leafleting! Festival Outreach APRL sets up information tables about animal issues at festivals in Southern California, where volunteers work together to distribute flyers and educate passersby about animal issues. The pamphlets focus on the ways that consumers can do their part to stop animal suffering by adopting a cruelty-free lifestyle. At festivals, our leaflets of choice are “Compassionate Choices,” “Why Vegan,” “Vegetarian Restaurants in San Diego County” and “Guide to Cruelty Free Eating.” Festivals are a great way to get the most bang for our outreach buck because we can reach a large number of people at once. Usually, between five and ten volunteers are needed at the information booth during each shift. Some volunteers talk to people who approach the info booth with questions, while others focus on distributing flyers to all interested passersby. For every 300 flyers distributed, it is anticipated that 5 people will go vegetarian! Click here to see photos of outreach volunteers in action. To get information on how to participate in upcoming festival outreach, Ban Veal Production
End Wildlife Poisoning APRL has worked with the City of San Diego Parks and Recreation Department to begin to implement more humane solutions to the City’s current poisoning of squirrels in many city parks. APRL also worked with the City of Del Mar to implement humane alternatives to their squirrel baiting and poisoning in Seagrove Park. Poisoning, trapping and baiting squirrels as methods of “population control” are inhumane. Poisons cause the animals to writhe in agony for hours, if not days. APRL The first step to controlling squirrel populations humanely is simply to find and eliminate human-caused food sources for the animal population in question. When humans intentionally or unintentionally feed wild animals, they cause the animals to be dependent for food. This also causes an unnatural surge in the animals’ population. In the wild, the animals will starve once the food source dries up. In parks or camp grounds, authorities often poison or otherwise exterminate the animals to “control” their numbers. The second step to reducing squirrel numbers is deterrence. Deterrence methods include using eco-friendly sprays to deter skunks, groundhogs, squirrels, raccoons and more from the premises. These products can be found at www.HavaHart.com. For more resources on other humane wildlife solutions, see www.hsus.org/wildlife/. APRL is looking for volunteers to lead and breathe new energy into our campaign for humane wildlife solutions! Email us if you’d like to help! Go Vegan Animals in factory farms are treated as commodities, not sentient beings who feel pain and emotions just like dogs or cats. Their welfare is disregarded in the name of profit, and they suffer horrendous conditions in mind boggling numbers. On standard commercial egg farms, hens are kept in such small cages that they cannot even lift one wing. Factory farmed animals have their beaks, tails, horns a In order to boycott factory farm cruelty altogether, as well as the devastating effects of factory farming on the environment and human health, compassionate people all over the world are going vegan. More information can be found at www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/. Another great resource is an online video documentary called “Meet Your Meat.”
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In order to produce veal, calves are taken from their mothers at birth and are chained by the neck in crates measuring just two feet wide. They cannot turn around, stretch their limbs, or even lie down comfortably. They are fed a liquid diet deficient in iron for 16 weeks, at which point they are slaughtered. All this to make their flesh pale and sickly. In order to keep the calves alive in these conditions, drugs are needed. Veal is among the most likely meat to contain illegal drug residues which pose a threat to human consumers. A recent independent Zogby 
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nd genitals chopped off with no anesthesia. All animals on factory farms are kept intensively and painfully confined. At the end of their miserable lives, they are all sent to violent commercial slaughterhouses where stunning procedures often fail, and the animals are dismembered or skinned while still conscious.
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