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Alec Baldwin's Letter to Congress

May 14, 2003

The Honorable Benjamin L. Cardin
U.S. House of Representatives
2207 Rayburn House Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20515-2003

Dear Representative Cardin,

In 1958, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HSA), which was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The act states that it is “the policy of the United States that the slaughtering of livestock and the handling of livestock in connection with slaughter shall be carried out only by humane methods.”

In 1978, again with strong bipartisan support, the act was strengthened to include all federally inspected slaughterhouses, give inspectors enforcement powers, and more. Senator Bob Dole, in pushing through the 1978 amendment, stated that our “national morality and concern for other living creatures demand legislation to prevent needless suffering …”

It may concern you to know, then, that although the Act discusses the handling of animals and is designed to prevent gross abuse, horrible cruelty to farmed animals remains the norm, in large part because of the USDA’s narrow interpretation of the HSA (the U.S. Department of Agriculture applies the HSA exclusively to the final seconds of an animal’s life, despite the clear inclusion of “handling in connection with slaughter” in the Act).

Please join me in The Capitol, room HC-5, sponsored by Earl Blumenauer, on May 20, 2003, at 3 p.m. for the premiere of “Meet Your Meat,” a new DVD that I have narrated for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Composed of graphic footage taken by undercover investigators, “Meet Your Meat” is a heart-wrenching and shocking indictment of the treatment of animals by the farmed-animal industry.

Everything in the DVD is in clear violation of the bipartisan spirit of compassion that motivated passage of the HSA and the 1978 amendment to the HSA. I hope that after you review the footage, you will investigate the narrow interpretation of the HSA by the USDA and do everything in your power to encourage the USDA to protect animals from the array of abuses that are standard in the farmed-animal industry.

In the event that you (or your staff) are unable to join us on May 20, I have enclosed a copy of the video for your review. Please call PETA Congressional Liaison Liesel Wolff to RSVP or if you have any questions or would like extra copies on either DVD or VHS video.

Sincerely,

Alec Baldwin
 
Alec-

Do you want to save the animals, or the people suffering from starvation?

I've thrown a dead chicken... I've thrown a live chicken. My family didn't have the horn nippers for our calves. We would pull their head through the bars of the stall and then use a saw... I think... I was young.

He thinks he is the first person to see this?

I'd never seen the chicken beak thing but it looks like a good way to keep them from pecking the eggs.

Chickens may be as smart as Alec Baldwin, but I don't equate my intellect to poultry.

No anethesia for castrating... Can't be good for the meat can it... Added chemicals!

I know animals feel pain. But I also know you can kick a cow in the ass as hard as you can and 5 seconds later he ain't hurting. I've seen horses kick each other hard enough to fracture a skull (My horse got his split right down the centerline). Trust me Alec they have a much higher tolerance for pain that humans do.

What was that Canadian pussy doing in our Capitol anyway? Animals are "abused" just as badly up there as down here.

DC
 
Yep, Alec does his best crying on that narration. This is the same guy that likes to carry my favorite 1911 in his films. What a sissy he is!
 
That's hardly fair to insult the chicken's intellect like that Daisycutter. I think I'll have to skip the video, he would probably make me to sick to eat for several days. Then a lot of perfectly good meat may go to waste.
 
The clipping of chicken’s beaks is to keep the little cannibals from picking each other to death. Not all chicken’s need it, but some are particularly vicious to their neighbors. The practice is very common and does not interfere with the chicken’s ability to eat mash and cracked grain.
 
Another example of gross misinformation. Birds and animals do not feel "love", or long for grass beneath their feet and wind in their face. Plain and simple, they have two concerns. Survival and reproduction. Reproduction comes second. Farms ensure their survival, in fact make survival mandatory. They don't have to worry about food or water like their wild counterparts. They have all they can eat and drink. Then comes reproduction. Once the survival is ensured, they shift their focus. Again, farms guarantee reproduction. Birds and animals are concerned with only two things. Farms provide plenty of both. Sounds like animal heaven if you ask me. As for the killing, that's what they were born for. Without farms they probably would never have been born at all, with all the food and water they want. A veterinarian once explained their pain this way - they feel pain, but on a different level. No emotional pain, just physical, and they recover from that fast. It's part of survival. Geld a horse, he's sore for a while. Give him some grain, he forgets about the pain. My wife and I have castrated many sheep. I hold them down, she snips the scrotum and pulls out the testicles, then sprays on Blue-Kote to stop infection. No bleeding. Five minutes later that sheep is out grazing like nothing happened. This Baldwin guy sounds like he has a lot of learning to do. If people didn't care for animals, there wouldn't be any.
 
I'd like to find alec walking down a dark street.

Growing up in Iowa i've worked in many hog confinements. They are livestock not pets. Its a business not a day spa for pigs.

The bottom line is that these animals don't belong to alec (notice the lower-case A, because his name doesn't isn't worthy of the time to capitalize it). They're not yours so bug off.

If he feels that these animals are tortured then he should deprive himself of the best thing on this planet to eat....MEAT!

He can stick to his tree bark diet and creat some gastrointestinal problems for himslef.

I don't even think his bleeding heart pumps blood, I think it is pushing around chlorophyll.

Frick'n Sally /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
I can honestly see that mr. balwin has never had his livelyhood depend on the production of livestock .
I use to live in a area that the main industry was raising chickens . I can tell you they have it a lot better than PETA describes it .
Hell , how would you feel if got all you wanted to eat and drink anytime you wanted it , kept cool in the summer and warm in the winter . Sounds like a real good situation to me .

Sean
 
This is just another good example of how out-of-touch and hypocritical Hollywood has become.

Every time he eats a steak or buys a pair of leather shoes..... Well, you know the rest...
 
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