Sign The Farm Sanctuary "Truth Behind Labels" Petition Today!
Cramped crates aren’t natural living conditions for calves and sows. Cows and pigs need fresh air, sunlight and open space to engage in natural behaviors such as grazing and rooting for food, taking mud baths, and raising their young. Trotting through a field and stretching one’s legs are natural too, aren’t they?

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently allowed companies to slap a “naturally raised” label on meat and meat products that
come from animals whose upbringing was far from natural. Raising animals in intensive confinement on factory farms, with no access to sunshine or fresh air is that natural? We say no! Furthermore, such a label misleads the public and exploits consumer trust in advertising and packaging claims and in government regulation of agriculture.

Let the USDA know you won’t stand for such deceptive claims. Tell them their “naturally raised” label is not natural!

Sign the petition, today!
 

Help Farm Sanctuary Save Sheep from Cruel and Unnecessary Training Exercises
This week Massachusetts General Hospital killed live sheep in a trauma training course, despite the fact that more than 90 percent of such courses in the nation rely exclusively on human-based simulators rather than live animals. Continuing to use sheep in this way is both outmoded and cruel.

Send a quick and easy letter to the Hospital’s course director urging her to commit to using only non-animal methods in future trauma training courses.

On April 15, PCRM sent a letter to the chair of the North Dakota State University (NDSU) Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) requesting that NDSU stop its use of animals in its trauma training course. In the letter, PCRM medical adviser John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C., wrote that the Animal Welfare Act mandates the consideration of nonanimal alternatives when they can minimize pain.

But at NDSU, misleading and outdated evidence about alternative nonanimal technologies and animal-based training was used to justify animal use in the IACUC protocol for the course.

Please ask NDSU to stop using animals in its trauma training course today.

 

The Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 1326) has just been re-introduced in Congress. This legislation aims to end invasive research on the chimpanzees remaining in laboratories, retire the approximately 500 federally-owned chimpanzees to permanent sanctuary (including the elder chimps at NIRC), and make the recent decision by the National Center for Research Resources (part of the National Institutes of Health) to stop funding the breeding of federally-owned chimpanzees permanent.

Please make a brief, polite phone call to urge your U.S. Representative to co-sponsor The Great Ape Protection Act. Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 or click here to look up your Representative and the Capitol office phone number.

After you make your call, fill in and submit the form to automatically send a message to your U.S. Representative. Your legislators receive a lot of email, so it is important to personalize the subject line and text below to make your message stand out and have a greater impact.