A lot has gone on over the past day or so, in response to the call I made in my latest podcast to require video cameras be installed in all US slaughterhouses.
Bea Elliot created an online petition that is approaching 500 signatures after just one day. If you read this petition, you’ll see how passionate people are about wanting this idea put into law. Read some of the entries that people wrote while signing the petition — it’s immensely encouraging. Perhaps the one I found most moving was from someone who wrote this should have been done decades ago. He’s right, of course.
Please note that while I urge you to sign the petition, I caution you against registering an account with the above site, since it apparently opts you into various email notifications by default.
Also yesterday, Alex Polizzi created a Facebook group named: Support Video Monitoring in Slaughterhouses. The interest this group has so far attracted has blown me away: 146 people have joined in fewer than 24 hours.
So, where to next? It’s clear from Bea’s petition that there is enormous latent interest in getting this law passed. What we need now is to form a community, and to start working collectively to make that happen. The Facebook page is a great starting point. Sign up with Facebook (if you don’t already have an account), friend me up, and then join the group.
