When a slaughterhouse in Utah was caught torturing a cow with a forklift, the police showed up – and promptly arrested citizen Amy Meyer for filming the 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.
Shockingly, corporations we know and patronize like pharmaceutical giant Pfizer are funding this madness.
Ag-gag bills are just some of the corporate-friendly laws written by the shadowy, right-wing bill factory, the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. ALEC has two kinds of members: Corporations like Comcast, 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 that public schools teach climate denial.
ALEC's agenda is so extreme that, thanks to grassroots pressure, many companies have already quit, including Google, Facebook, and even Shell in just the past year. But others, like Pfizer, remain. If Pfizer wants to clean up its image during its mega-merger with Allergen, now is the time to act.
Sign the petition: If Facebook, Google, Walmart, and dozens more can do the right thing and quit ALEC, so can Pfizer!
I demand that Pfizer 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 money funds 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! Stop funding ALEC today!
