View source for Berkeley, CA Endorsing Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act

{{Entity|Locale=Berkeley|Region=CA|Country=US}}
'''Type''': Resolution

'''Status''': Adopted on 1/29/08

'''Source File''': http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/uploadedFiles/Clerk/2008-01-29_Item_04_Prevention_of_Farm_Animal_Cruelty_Act.pdf

'''Text''':

''ENDORSING THE PREVENTION OF FARM ANIMAL CRUELTY ACT, A STATEWIDE BALLOT INITIATIVE REQUIRING THAT CALVES USED FOR VEAL, EGG-LAYING HENS AND BREEDING PIGS ON INDUSTRIALIZED FACTORY FARMS HAVE ENOUGH ROOM TO TURN AROUND AND EXTEND THEIR LIMBS.''

'''WHEREAS''', Animal welfare charities, veterinarians, family farmers, conservation
organizations, health professionals and concerned citizens have formed a coalition
called Californians for Humane Farms to start gathering the 650,000 signatures needed
to place this initiative on the November 2008 ballot through an all –volunteer effort; and

'''WHEREAS''', if passed, this initiative will ban the use of veal crates for calves, battery
cages for egg laying hens, and gestation crates for breeding pigs in the State of
California; and

'''WHEREAS''', the extreme overcrowded conditions that have become the norm in some
sectors of animal agribusiness cause immense suffering for the animals while polluting
the air, contaminating groundwater and threatening human health; and

'''WHEREAS''', young calves are kept in tiny enclosures, purposely confined so intensively
that they are not even able to turn around; and

'''WHEREAS''', the vast majority of egg-laying hens are confined in barren battery cages
that are so small they can barely move; and

'''WHEREAS''', during their pregnancies, the female breeding pigs are severely restricted
in individual “gestation crates” measuring just two feet wide where they are unable to
exercise or even turn around.

'''NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED''' that the Council of the City of Berkeley
endorses the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, a statewide ballot initiative
requiring that calves used for veal, egg-laying hens and breeding pigs on industrialized
factory farms have enough room to turn around and extend their limbs.

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