For Immediate Release:
March 30, 2022
Contact:
Robin Goist 202-483-7382
Sacramento, Calif. â This morning, Oscar winner and longtime PETA ally Anjelica Huston sent a letter to members of Californiaâs Assembly Agriculture Committee, calling intensive animal factory farms âthe last thing California needsâ and urging lawmakers to adopt a âcommonsense approach to reducing environmental devastationâ by passing AB 2764, which would prohibit the construction or expansion of factory farms and slaughterhouses in the state.
âFactory farms and slaughterhouses are a significant contributor to Californiaâs carbon footprint and are sucking the stateâs water supply dry, so adding more of them to the mix would be disastrous,â Huston wrote on PETAâs behalf. âA moratorium on building such facilities would also help prevent extreme cruelty to animalsâand who wouldnât support that?â
According to the Pacific Institute, 47% of Californiaâs water-use footprint comes from meat and dairy farmingnimal agriculture is responsible for nearly one-fifth of human-induced greenhouse-gas emissions. In addition to harming the planet, the meat, egg, and dairy industries are abysmally cruel to animals, who spend their lives crammed into filthy sheds, compelled to live in their own waste before being trucked in all types of weather to horrible slaughterhouses. Government inspectors report that many animals are fully conscious as their throats are slit.
âThis bill would help protect the state from devastating droughts and deadly heat waves,â Huston notes, urging assemblymembers to pass the bill. â[A]s someone who lives in an area vulnerable to wildfires, I take this issue very seriously.â
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Hustonâs letter to Assemblymember Robert Rivas and members of the Assembly Agriculture Committee follows.
March 30, 2022
The Honorable Robert Rivas
Assembly Committee on Agriculture
1020 N. St., Rm. 362
Sacramento, CA 95814
Re: Statement in Support of AB 2764 (Nazarian) Animals: commercial animal feeding operations and slaughterhouses: prohibition on new operations
Dear Assemblymember Rivas and Members of the Assembly Agriculture Committee:
Iâm writing on behalf of my friends at PETA and as someone who calls California home to urge you to pass AB 2764. The last thing our beautiful state needs is another large, cruel, filthy factory farm.
As you know, this bill would not affect existing factory farms and slaughterhouses or the companies that run them or prevent people from buying meat. It is simply a bare-bones, commonsense approach to reducing environmental devastation in the future, and as someone who lives in an area vulnerable to wildfires, I take this issue very seriously.
This bill would help protect the state from devastating droughts and deadly heat waves. Factory farms and slaughterhouses are a significant contributor to Californiaâs carbon footprint and are sucking the stateâs water supply dry, so adding more of them to the mix would be disastrous. A moratorium on building such facilities would also help prevent extreme cruelty to animalsâand who wouldnât support that? Slaughterhouses are also among the most dangerous places on Earth for workers and became even more so when they turned into COVID-19 hotspots due to the unsafe, unsanitary working conditions.
The planet is sounding the alarm for all our sakes, and I hope youâll help answer the call by passing AB 2764.
Sincerely,
Anjelica Huston
Source: Peta.org