North Carolina citizens in these below NC Counties PLEASE CALL Congreeman Walter Jones TODAY:

Please Politely call Congressman Walter Jones at  (202) 225-3415 and ask that he SUPPORT “The Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2012″:

Message to leave:

“My name is ___ ____ and I am a constituent of Congressman Jones in 3rd district. I am calling to ask that Congressman Jones SUPPORT the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2012, bill number H.R. 3798. This bill will improve the lives of hundreds of millions of egg-laying hens in the United States. Also, this bill is supported by the “United Egg Producers” that represents 88% of the U.S. egg industry. Thank you for your time.”

Randolph Shelter ‘Wishlist” Beds, bowls, etc.

Roger William Vanzant’s court date is January 12, 2012 at:

Davidson County Court House
110 West Center Street
Lexington, NC 27292

District Court begins at 9am. His case will be on the docket for this date. This could be a very short hearing or it could be his actual trial.  We will not know until that day.  His case will come up in the order that the courts decide.  We could be there for several hours to wait for the hearing or it could be immediately. The case could be continued or decided on this date.

Please understand that the purpose of our presence to show support for the courts for prosecuting animal abuse cases.  We must remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL in order to remain credible.

Teddy and all of the animals like him need YOU!
Teddy 

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Sustainable farming is a return to the way farming used to be done before industrial [...]]]> Sustainable farming is a way of raising food that is healthy for consumers and animals, does not harm the environment, is humane for workers, respects animals, provides a fair wage to the farmer, and supports and enhances rural communities.

Sustainable farming is a return to the way farming used to be done before industrial farming practices started to drive out the family farmer of business 50 years ago.

But why should YOU care?

1. Animal Welfare Farm animals are well treated. That is because the farmer is invested into the health of the animal, unlike an industrial (Factory) farm. A sustainable farmer has a small number of animals and is impacted if that animal becomes sick. Industrial farms factor the number of animals that are going to die into their profitability equations. Animals on sustainable farms are also able to engage in natural behaviors such as grazing, rooting or pecking, and are fed a natural diet appropriate for their species. Factory-farmed animals are crammed together in unsanitary conditions, where they suffer horribly. Read more

2. Your Health Industrial agriculture relies on synthetic fertilizers and chemical pesticides, large amounts of water, Artificial hormones in milk, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, mad cow disease, and large-scale outbreaks of potentially deadly e.coli. According to New York Times bestselling author Jo Robinson, grass-fed beef has two to six times more omega-3′s than factory farmed, grain-fed meat. Read more

3. Our Environment On industrial farms thousands of pounds of animal waste is dumped into “lagoons” and sprayed on fields. This waste is toxic because of the use of antibiotics and growth hormones given to the animals on industrial farms. In 1995 25 million gallons of hog waste spilled into the New River in North Carolina. The spill killed about 10 million fish and closed 364,000 acres of coastal wetlands to shellfishing. It was the worst environmental spill in United States History until the Gulf oil spill in 2010. Read more

4. Supports our Local NC Small Farmers/Rural Communities Sustainable farmers are paid a fair wage and not dependent on government subsidies (your tax dollars) like industrial farms. The rural workforce employed on U.S. farms dropped by about 50 percent in the 1980s and 1990s. These rural farmers spend 95 percent of farm-related expenditures within their local communities. When the farmers were driven out of business by industrial farms, the communities slowly died. Industrial farms replaced jobs that sustained a community with dangerous, minimum wage jobs. Read more

Sustainable Farm

Industrial (Factory) Farm