Taking a page out of Taylor Swift’s Tumblr, yesterday, Ryan Gosling wrote an open letter to Costco imploring the wholesale giant to sell cage-free eggs. Gosling wrote to Craig Jelinek,
Costco’s CEO, urging the company to stop buying eggs from suppliers
that keep their chickens in cages. He also requested that Costco go
completely cage-free. In the letter, Gosling writes, “So many
corporations are meeting public demand for more humane products and
transparency in the food chain. I sincerely hope that Costco will set
plans now to go completely cage-free for its eggs.” Gosling has a long history with advocating for the rights of animals. His activism first drew the public’s eye in 2003,
when he wrote a letter to KFC on behalf of PETA. He asked the company
to consider more humane ways of raising and slaughtering their chickens
so that “these animals are afforded a more humane and less painful
existence.” He later released a letter he wrote to McDonald’s arguing for those same initiatives. But Gosling’s concerns are not limited to chickens. He’s advocated for better living conditions for pigs, and in 2013, Gosling launched one of his most aggressive campaigns to date. He wrote a letter
to the president of the National Milk Producers Federation urging them
to stop the process known as “dehorning,” which is when cattle ranchers
remove cows’ horns by burning or sawing them off...more
Don't dehorn them cattle fellers, and you might consider an underground heifer highway.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
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