Calling all STUDENTS, TEACHERS & ALUMNI from UH, Rice, St. Thomas, UTHSC, HBU, Baylor, HCC … AND employees of large corporations with meal services.
Friend, did you know that laying hens are arguably the most abused animals in all agribusiness? About 95% of these roughly 300 million hens in the United States are confined in barren, wire "battery cages" so restrictive the birds don't even have enough space to spread their wings. With no opportunity to engage in many of their natural behaviors, including nesting, dust bathing, perching, and foraging, these birds endure lives wrought with suffering.
We at In Solidarity with Animals, on behalf of The Humane Society of the United States, are asking that you fly to the aid of these tortured hens by influencing your school to purchase eggs only from suppliers that do not use battery cages.
Important note: ISWA strongly urges each and every one of you to Go Vegan! and drop eggs from your diet entirely (as there is always needless suffering associated with mass egg production). However, we feel this campaign to phase out battery cages could potentially alleviate a great deal of the horror endured by these poor birds.
HSUS will do most of the presentation and educating of food service management, but they need YOUR internal influence and representation. Most schools are very open to the idea as you can see from the list of colleges that made the simple cruelty free transition in the brief letter below. Summer is the best time to get this project underway.
So please respond to this email if you are affiliated with any school! Simply state the school, your contact information and any other pertinent information such as the food service supplier (if possible).
For more information, please read below and visit www.hsus.org/farm/ and click “No Battery Eggs”.
Thank you,
In Solidarity with Animals
Close to 100 college campuses have already switched to serving cage-free eggs. The list includes University of Wisconsin, Yale, University ofIowa, Tufts, Dartmouth, American University and many others. Pleasehelp put Texas schools on the map by helping to include area schools inthe growing number of progressive schools making socially responsiblepurchasing decisions. As you are aware, egg-laying hens within batterycages are given roughly the space of half a sheet of paper to live their entire lives. Of all animals subjected to intensive factory farming,egg-laying hens have it the worst by far.
The Humane Society of the United States can help you get your school on the ever-growing list of schools that have gone cage-free. Please call Alyson Powers (UH grad and former Houstonian) at 301-721-6422 or emailapowers@hsus.org. For more information, please access www.hsus.org/farm/ and click No Battery Eggs. We can also work together if you have connections with a college outside of Houston or want to approach your high school or place
of employment.Alyson PowersOutreach CoordinatorFactory Farming CampaignThe Humane Society of the United States2100 L St., NWWashington, DC 20037301-721-6422 apowers@hsus.org www.hsus.org
Friend, did you know that laying hens are arguably the most abused animals in all agribusiness? About 95% of these roughly 300 million hens in the United States are confined in barren, wire "battery cages" so restrictive the birds don't even have enough space to spread their wings. With no opportunity to engage in many of their natural behaviors, including nesting, dust bathing, perching, and foraging, these birds endure lives wrought with suffering.
We at In Solidarity with Animals, on behalf of The Humane Society of the United States, are asking that you fly to the aid of these tortured hens by influencing your school to purchase eggs only from suppliers that do not use battery cages.
Important note: ISWA strongly urges each and every one of you to Go Vegan! and drop eggs from your diet entirely (as there is always needless suffering associated with mass egg production). However, we feel this campaign to phase out battery cages could potentially alleviate a great deal of the horror endured by these poor birds.
HSUS will do most of the presentation and educating of food service management, but they need YOUR internal influence and representation. Most schools are very open to the idea as you can see from the list of colleges that made the simple cruelty free transition in the brief letter below. Summer is the best time to get this project underway.
So please respond to this email if you are affiliated with any school! Simply state the school, your contact information and any other pertinent information such as the food service supplier (if possible).
For more information, please read below and visit www.hsus.org/farm/ and click “No Battery Eggs”.
Thank you,
In Solidarity with Animals
Close to 100 college campuses have already switched to serving cage-free eggs. The list includes University of Wisconsin, Yale, University ofIowa, Tufts, Dartmouth, American University and many others. Pleasehelp put Texas schools on the map by helping to include area schools inthe growing number of progressive schools making socially responsiblepurchasing decisions. As you are aware, egg-laying hens within batterycages are given roughly the space of half a sheet of paper to live their entire lives. Of all animals subjected to intensive factory farming,egg-laying hens have it the worst by far.
The Humane Society of the United States can help you get your school on the ever-growing list of schools that have gone cage-free. Please call Alyson Powers (UH grad and former Houstonian) at 301-721-6422 or emailapowers@hsus.org. For more information, please access www.hsus.org/farm/ and click No Battery Eggs. We can also work together if you have connections with a college outside of Houston or want to approach your high school or place
of employment.Alyson PowersOutreach CoordinatorFactory Farming CampaignThe Humane Society of the United States2100 L St., NWWashington, DC 20037301-721-6422 apowers@hsus.org www.hsus.org
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