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Ryan Gosling has written an article in The Globe and Mail that examines why Canada’s National Farm Animal Care Council, the group that regulates the agricultural system and sets farmed animal standards in Canada, should eliminate gestation crates for pigs on farms.

The actor has previously spoken out on other animal welfare issues, such as dehorning dairy calves.

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Billy Corgan has been an advocate for animals used in the fast food industry before.

He’s joined forces with PETA in asking KFC to source its chickens from suppliers that treat them more humanely.

Now he’s back with PETA again, this time educating officials at a pizza restaurant on the practice of dehorning calves.

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Ryan Gosling has written a letter to the National Milk Federation that urges the organization to reconsider the practice of dehorning calves.

“Dehorning is one of the most painful things done to cows on dairy farms, whether it is by burning a calf with a searing hot iron or applying caustic paste to create a chemical burn that eats away at the animal’s flesh,” writes Gosling.

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Ryan Gosling has written a letter to the US Department of Agriculture, asking the agency to reconsider its approval of a method to kill chickens.

The method involves suffocating the bird with a foam based agent.

PETA says the process can, “take up to 15 minutes and is as traumatic and panic-inducing as killing birds by choking them, strangling them, smothering them, or burying them alive.”

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Ryan Gosling has voiced his concerns over what PETA says are outdated slaughter practices fast food giant McDonald’s is practicing.

In a letter to McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner, Gosling pointed out that although there are no laws governing chicken slaughter in the U.S., Europe has already adopted a more humane way of slaughter.

“Dear Mr. Skinner, I was shocked to learn from my friends at PETA that McDonald’s, a company that claims to be an industry leader in animal welfare, still allows its suppliers to use an outdated chicken slaughter method that results in broken wings and legs and causes birds to be scalded to death in defeathering tanks.”

Gosling wrote a similar letter to officials at KFC Canada in 2008 and the company that coordinates purchases for those KFCs is currently in the process of phasing in all their chickens from suppliers that use this method.

No chickens killed is the best, but more humane slaughter methods are a step in the right direction.

Wanna write a letter yourself?

Grab and pen, pencil or keyboard and make your voice heard to Mr. Skinner at Jim Skinner, CEO, McDonald’s Corporation, 2111 McDonald’s Dr., Oak Brook, IL 60523.

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