The care2 site offers "butterfly credits" when you take action on issues, and these credits can be traded in for good works, such as helping farmers grow organic cotton, bottle-feeding a kitten or puppy, or providing clean water for people. There are 69 option altogether, includng one called "raise a farm animal humanely."
this is highly inappropriate for an organization working toward social justice issues. The end result of all animal farming is slaughter.
- There is nothing humane about slaughter. Furth
- Cows and goats, whose milk is used for human consumption, have their babies removed practically from birth.
- In order to continue giving milk, the mothers must be continually impregnated in a procedure akin to rape. There is nothing humane about that.
- "Humane" is a matter of degree - there are no government regulations to determine what is and is not humane
- Environmental impacts are not lessened by "humane" farming.Grass-fed cows actually produce more methane than factory-farmed cows.
- Wild animals are still dispossessed of their land to make way for grazing animals.
For these and many other reasons, which can be found at www.humanemyth.org, we, the undersigned, urge care2.com to remove the "raise an animal humanely" option in giving butterfly credits, and replace this with "help feed a sanctuary animal." There are many many good sanctuaries for "farmed" animals out there - some of the best being Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary, Sasha Farm and the Gentle Barn.