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Posted October 28, 2014
The Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) has launched a hotline to report cruelty and neglect, according to a HSUS release available here. Feedstuffs also published an article available here.
The hotline will be a “whistleblower reward program” to report abuse on factory farms, at livestock auctions and in slaughter houses will empower employees at those facilities who have witnessed cruelty or other unlawful acts.
The HSUS offers a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who have committed cruelty acts to farm animals.
HSUS will work with the United Farm Workers to inform workers at farms, slaughterhouses, and livestock auctions of the hotline
–> (1-888-209-7177), according to Feedstuffs.
“The hotline was launched after agribusiness interests and their legislative allies made it virtually impossible to document cruelty on factory farms in a handful of states. Those states have passed “ag gag” bills, which criminalize undercover investigations of agricultural facilities.”
For more information on animal welfare, please visit the National Agricultural Law Center’s website here.
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