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 FedEx 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 FedEx, 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 FedEx 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 FedEx CEO Smith! FedEx 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.)
