When a slaughterhouse in Utah was caught torturing a cow with a forklift, the police showed up – but not to stop the abuse. They arrested citizen Amy Meyer for filming the animal cruelty, even though she never left public land.
Care2 members might call Amy a hero for protecting animals, but Utah called her a criminal. This is because of a new kind of state law called "ag gag," which bans citizens from filming industrial animal abuse without permission.
Shockingly, corporations we know and patronize like UPS are funding this madness.
These ag-gag bills are just some of the corporate-friendly laws written by a shadowy, right-wing organization called the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. ALEC has two kinds of members: Corporations like UPS, Exxon, and Koch Industries, who provide funding, and state lawmakers, who try to pass the corporate lobbyists' bills. Other ALEC bills include "Stand Your Ground," attacks on voting rights, efforts to repeal clean energy laws, and requirements for public schools to teach climate denial.
This agenda is so extreme that, thanks to grassroots pressure, many companies have already quit ALEC, including Google, Facebook, and even Shell in just the past year. But others remain. Can we really trust UPS this holiday shipping season now that we know what they're funding?
Sign the petition: If Facebook, Google, Walmart, and dozens more can do the right thing, so can UPS CEO Abney! UPS must quit ALEC now!
(UPS and FedEx both belong to ALEC, but there is no evidence that DHL does, and the U.S. Post Office does not.)
If you want my holiday shipping dollars, I demand that UPS stops funding climate denial and ag gag laws, and leaves ALEC today!
You might have other reasons for belonging to the right-wing legislation factory, but your membership dues fund all its activity, including not just climate denial and potential animal abuse but also “Stand Your Ground” laws and attacks on voting rights.
This isn't your corporate mission, and it's bad for our country and our planet. Quit ALEC at once, or I will have to consider permanently taking my business to other shipping companies.
