Florida campaign rocks: HSUS now a champion for sows

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For any long-term campaign one must first pick vulnerable targets and also have an excellent chance of winning successive battles. As soon as an initial victory is gained, one must move on to increasingly difficult targets while the success of the last effort still holds momentum.

A Florida campaign spearheaded by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is currently operating using this textbook strategy for success. Activists there are using a state rule--which allows single issues to be put on the ballot--to get farrowing crates for sows outlawed. Crates cruelly force gestating sows to be pinned in place for weeks at a time so the commodity piglets can nurse without accidentally being smothered.

Florida has only 100 hog farms, with just a tiny number of these standing to be affected by a ban, so opposition should be minimal. The initiative is now only about 400,000 signatures away from being ballot-ready. (Click to see the January 18 calendar listing to help.) Once the bill is passed, it's on to the next state!

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