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Dear Aaaaaaa, Can you imagine the terror of being torn away from your family as a newborn? Or the pain of having your teeth snipped with pliers—without painkillers? On industrial farms around the world, smart, sensitive pigs are enduring this misery right now—but the meat industry is lobbying hard to keep its cruelty under wraps by promoting dangerous "ag-gag" bills. PETA's legal team won a significant victory in Iowa just this past January, when the court agreed with us that the state's ag-gag law is unconstitutional. But a new appeal by the state means that our work there is far from over. Animals can't afford for us to lose—which is why we need to raise $100,000 for the PETA Legal Fund by March 31. Please make a gift right now—100% of your support will help our team oppose such dangerous ag-gag laws and strengthen all our legal work for animals. Even as little as $5 can make a difference. People have a right to know about the misery that animals are experiencing right now on farms, in slaughterhouses, and at other businesses that exploit them. PETA's eyewitnesses have documented rampant cruelty on massive farms, and as a result, our legal team has helped secure many precedent-setting convictions of factory-farm workers—like the former employees of an Iowa pig farm that supplied Hormel. On that hideous farm, workers kicked sows, beat them with metal gate rods, and poked them in the eyes. Video footage even showed one worker slamming piglets considered "runts" onto the floor headfirst in botched attempts to kill them. Thanks to the support of our legal team, 22 charges of livestock neglect and abuse were eventually filed against six former employees of the Hormel supplier. All six defendants admitted guilt, and the case resulted in the state's first convictions for the abuse or neglect of factory-farmed pigs. But if Iowa's insidious, recently defeated ag-gag law had been in effect at that time, the eyewitnesses may have been the ones punished, and the abuse may have never become public knowledge. Your gift today will help provide our legal team with the tools that it needs to push back against abusers. Our deadline is March 31, so please don't wait! The meat, egg, and dairy industries know that our eyewitness investigations are making millions aware of the suffering they cause—but to them, a healthy profit margin is more important than the lives of the billions of individual animals they kill each year. Aided by their allies—some of whom have designed ag-gag bills specifically to target PETA's exposés—they're pushing for laws that would make it illegal to document even the most flagrant types of cruelty. They know that our investigations inspire people to take action to stop animal abuse—and they're trying to silence the outcry against it. We've helped successfully overturn ag-gag laws in Idaho and Utah, thanks to the support of kind people like you, and now we're doing everything that we can to uphold this latest win in Iowa. Please help us meet our $100,000 goal to keep all of our vital legal work for animals going strong by making a gift now! Our expert legal team has won many groundbreaking victories for animals, and our opponents know we will never, ever give up as long as their abuse continues. Thank you for your compassion and for everything that you do for animals. Kind regards, | |||||||||||||||
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