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Petition update, 27 March 2009

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The modern factory farming systems should be stopped immediately . It causes suffering to millions of animals, devastating the environment, impoverishing millions of people across the globe and it spawns deadly superbugs.

As many animals as possible are crammed together in the smallest possible space often never seeing daylight.

Five chickens are crammed into a wire cage no bigger than a microwave. They cannot even stand up or stretch their wings. Confinement and overcrowding causes frustration and chronic suffering.

Pigs are highly intelligent . Sows have to endure the barbaric treatment of farrowing crates, that are barely bigger than their own bodies they are unable to walk or turn and suffer stress, pain and psychological torture. Piglets are kept in overcrowded concrete filthy cells. Their tails are cut off and their teeth are crushed without anaesthetic.

Dairy cows are made to produce ten times more milk than they would naturally produce for their calf. Their offspring are removed from their mother at two days old, despite her bellows of despair. These calves are often shot in the head. Those that aren't shot will often be exported live to continental veal farms.

Current signatories

Jodie Smith, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• L MacDonald
• Michael A Sorfleet.
• Andrew Constantine, Free England Party
• Teresa
• Sandra Knight
• Derek Knight
• Philip Glover
• James
• Richard Lax
• Dick King
• S King
• Ruben Black
• Rachel Flaherty
• Ben Parish
• Suzanne Thorpe
• Michael Nix
• Matt
• Jeff
• Kerry-Ann Stanley
• Louise Gale
• Sandy Lomax
• carl holmes
• Margaret King
• Lesley Robinson
• Laura Davenport
• Martin Lambie
• David Watts
• Catherine Watts
• jennifer coutts
• Antony Sammeroff
• E.Sipoviciute
• Barry Mcleish
• rosie hemsley
• dave hemsley
• sarah phelps-scott
• Tina da Cruz
• Nicola Rich
• Tracy Steel
• Chrryl Pettitt
• sara delaney
• Alison Earnshaw
• Sarah Facey
• Madeline Anderson
• Samantha Bathgate
• Hannah N. Pearce
• Helen Beaumont
• Alice H
• Gareth Blake
• katie cook
• Daniel Maffey
• Suzanne Berry
• Rachel Rance
• Kenneth Craig
• Victoria McOuat
• george miller
• nicholas chapman
• Ryan Miller
• Rebecca Gill
• Clara Massa
• Jacob Melnyk
• Jane Slater
• Dave Robinson
• amanda luscombe
• Simone Cripps
• A Cox
• catherine cullen
• Freya Brookes
• Cathy Harrison
• Ghiabelinda
• Dominic Aubrey-Jones
• Amanda Love
• graham gunningham
• Kimberley Chard
• Zara Stewart
• Barbara Allen
• Jean Kelly
• Franziska Fisken
• Wendy Walden
• Toby Roscoe
• nicola hulse
• john brookarsh
• Edward Lawrence
• Barry Holloway
• Elizabeth Hislop
• priyanka
• Kim Warmington
• Sawan Kothary
• Tara Marshall
• Lobna Amini
• Nikita Patel
• Jasmine Drake
• Norma Armston
• joga bains
• Rozz Cutler
• Katie Hall
• Dr Bethany Lowe
• Daniel Garner
• Mrs Jo Hale
• Debbie Wilbur
• Sara Johnston
• Nat Low
• Jennifer Law
• Catherine Law
• Diane Law
• Bryan Law
• Nicola Ramsay
• susan clarke
• Sarah Lovell
• A Lawry
• Ian Bickmore
• PATRICIA merritt
• corina reay
• Ruth Sherbourne
• Lynne Daffern
• Paul Cresswell
• Angus Coull
• PETER G MACKIE
• Rachel Jane Leigh
• Christina Brand
• Kathryn Hulland
• ghiabelinda
• Hannah Stainer
• Thomas Henry Anderson
• Sarah Faulkner
• Hannah Grundy
• Jenny
• rob smith
• Samuel Smith
• Rafael Maldonado
• Amy Jones
• kurt mills
• Rose Browne
• Carly Whittaker
• Pamela DeGoutiere (petitions.number10.gov.uk/VETOVERCHARGING)
• a grayson
• Elizabeth Roberts
• E.Mansfield
• Belinda Jackson-knowles
• Vicky Owen
• Cara Harrison
• Julia Jack
• Alison Kent
• alicia s
• Lauren Nodding
• Sophie Drewery
• Jay Morgan
• Jan King
• Molly Balley
• Paula Burton
• kathy
• Alison Arnold
• Alexandra Taylor
• Cassandra Taylor
• Shayla Daniel
• Joanna Barrett
• v.phelps
• Graham Cooper
• kelly turner
• Mrs June Lewis
• Kate Jeffrey
• Jayne Matthews
• Kirsty Stewart
• Zoe Farmer
• Joseph A. Dorrell
• P Vyas
• Thomas R. Anderson
• Alexander van Terheyden
• Annie Dillon
• Naomi Berry
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• Maxine Adams
• Dan Wheeler
• Kerry Nicholson
• Andy Shakespeare
• Jonny Mason
• David Bellamy
• E.Siggers
• Dawn Wharton
• Lynne Chester
• Robert Watts
• mary simmonds
• Heidi Hullah
• denis hawkins
• Matthew Southwell
• amy buckle
• Sam Hopper
• Jason Knight
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• James Laing
• Richard Brett
• D Oliver
• Fiona Graham
• Rob Levy
• Lisa Hartley
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• joanna dulowska
• Kate Sidaway
• Robin Paris
• Colette Mottram-Hunt
• Daniel Garner
• Lorraine Kay
• James Gunn
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• Lise Andreassen
• Jessica Baker
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• Maxine Walker
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• James Porter
• Nicola Walker
• chris standell
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• Annette Gade
• Katrina Leszczynska
• Paula O'Gorman
• Antonia Page
• Adam Driscoll
• Faye Thatcher
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• Tom Tamplin
• Kevin Hoyes
• Bee Warren
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• karen
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• Susan Wright
• Jenny
• Clive Gaster
• lynn hodsdon
• nicola manson
• Helga Baggs
• Deb Justice
• Hayley Carter
• Helen Banks
• Eleanor Davies
• Mark Oliver
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