Vote NO on Florida Amendment 10: Piggy PAC

(Update: Florida's Pigs Get Wings By David Martosko, Director of Research, Center for Consumer Freedom, Nov. 16, 2002)

Money from Political Action Committees (PACs) for animal rights initiatives has flooded into state elections over the last few years. This year, a very interesting initiative has surfaced in Florida.

Floridians should vote NO on Amendment 10 (sponsored by Piggy PAC "Floridians for Humane Farms"), a measure designed to infuse animal rights into the State Constitution.

"So why invest the nearly $1 million supporters of the initiative claim they will spend in the coming campaign?" asked Wesley Smith in Florida's Weekly Standard as he deduced, "That's a lot of money to potentially help just a few hundred pigs. But if the goal is to blur the moral distinction between human and animal life - well, that, for animal rightists, is worth much more than $1 million."(1)

Although the care of pigs is worthy of debate, we object to animal husbandry issues being introduced into constitutions designed to safeguard civil rights for humans.(2) Pigs are not people and, most of the time, people are not pigs.

NOTES:

(1) "Pigs aren't people", Weekly Standard, Oct. 13, 2002.
(2) For more on Piggy PAC, visit www.centerforconsumerfreedom.com and follow the links. Also see the Farm Sanctuary's profile at www.activistcash.com. For the opposition's view, see www.humaneusa.org/initiatives/elections.htm

For further information contact: Teresa Platt, Executive Director, Fur Commission USA, PMB 506, 826 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA 92118-2698 USA, (619) 575-0139, (619) 575-5578/fax, furfarmers@aol.com, www.furcommission.com.

To take a cyber-tour of a fur farm, visit Fur Commission USA's Fur on Film at http://www.furcommission.com/video/index.htm

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