Yes! on Prop 2 Campaign Launches First Statewide TV Ads

 Past President of California Veterinary Medical Association and UC Davis Professor of Veterinary Medicine Urge YES! on Prop 2 to Stop Animal Cruelty

SACRAMENTO – Today the YES! on Prop 2 campaign launched its first television ads of the election season, urging California voters to stop animal cruelty and improve food safety. Prop 2 is a modest measure that would allow breeding pigs, veal calves and egg-laying hens enough room to stand up, turn around and stretch their limbs.

The ads show viewers first-hand the abuses of industrial factory farms, and includes a series of scenes from California factory farms where veal calves are chained by the neck and confined in tiny crates, pigs are kept in metal cages barely larger than their bodies, and hens are crammed together in wire cages, each with less space than a letter-sized sheet of paper.

Two versions of the 30-second spot feature Dr. Jeff Smith, a Middletown veterinarian and the immediate past president of the 5,500-member California Veterinary Medical Association, and Dr. Kate Hurley, a Davis veterinarian and a professor at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Smith and Dr. Hurley each say:

"I am a California veterinarian and I am voting YES on Proposition 2. It is simply wrong to tightly confine animals in small spaces where they can barely move. We would not force our pets to live in cramped cages for their whole lives, and farm animals should not suffer this misery either. All animals, including those raised for food, deserve humane treatment. Join me and hundreds of other California veterinarians in voting YES! on Prop 2."

Click here to view the ads.

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Prop 2 is supported by The Humane Society of the United States, the California Veterinary Medical Association, the Center for Food Safety, the ASPCA, the Consumer Federation of America, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the United Farm Workers, Farm Sanctuary, the Sierra Club, Cesar Chavez Foundation, Republican and Democratic elected officials, hundreds of California veterinarians, family farmers, religious leaders, and many others.

Yes on Prop. 2 – Californians for Humane Farms, sponsored by The Humane Society of the US, Farm Sanctuary and other animal protection groups, family farmers, veterinarians and public health professionals. For more information, visit YESonProp2.com.