Kristen Bell Asks National Pork Producers Council To End Gestation Crates
Written by Vegetarian Star on January 23rd, 2013 in Actresses, Animal Issues, Food & Drink.
Kristen Bell is expecting and both her vegan diet and her experience being with child has made her consider the conditions many mother pigs endure on farms.
In a letter to the National Pork Producers Council, Bell asks that the industry do away with gestation crates that allow the pigs very little room to move freely and live naturally.
Bell says that although she loves being pregnant, she “can’t imagine how awful it would be under conditions like these.”
“As you of course know: while pregnant, the vast majority of breeding pigs used by the pork industry are confined to gestation crates: tiny cages that are just about as wide and long as the pigs’ own bodies, preventing these poor animals from even being able to turn around,” the actress writes.
“Just before they give birth, they’re transferred to another – almost identical – cage. After some time in that cage, they are re-impregnated and then put back into a gestation crate for many more months. This cycle repeats for the animals’ entire lives, adding up to years on end of being basically immobilized inside dark warehouses.”
“Regardless of what our individual diets might be, one thing all Americans can agree on is that pigs deserve better than these gestation crates. They’re cruel, inhumane, and totally out of whack with people’s values about how we ought to treat animals.”
Read Bell’s entire letter at the Humane Society.
Photo: David Shankbone/Creative Commons
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