Pigs in Maryland Need Your Help!

Your help is needed to pass Maryland legislation banning cruel gestation crates for pregnant pigs! Sows spend most of their lives in these crates too small even to turn around in. The intense confinement causes tremendous frustration and psychological suffering to these intelligent animals.

Florida just banned this cruelty by popular vote, the first law restricting the inhumane confinement of farm animals in the nation. Building on this momentum, Senator Sharon Grosfeld has introduced S.B. 417 to ban their use in Maryland. Prohibiting gestation crates will not only help the welfare of Maryland pigs, but will also keep the massive environmental pollution caused by the factory farms that use them out of the state.

If you live in Maryland, please contact your state (not federal) Senator and ask them to "Please support S.B. 417 to prohibit the cruel confinement of pregnant pigs." Please tell everyone you know in Maryland to do so as well. This could be a watershed for similar progress around the country. To find out who your legislators are and how to reach them, look them up on the Maryland legislature's website, or just ask us at [email protected].

Consider contacting all the members of the committee that will be deciding the fate of this bill in the next two weeks. Find their contact info here.

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