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More than the painful loss of
life and property in Pakistan, livestock also
suffers in these calamities. Millions of animals
have died or are facing starvation, threatening
future generations of livestock. Pakistan's
agricultural resilience has been pushed to the
breaking point, and there is an urgent need for
assistance. Please give generously today. |
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The
humane treatment of farm
animals
begins with a basic
building block:
animals that have
time to live
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Unlike pure bred chickens, Sophia (below) has
heartbreaking industrial genetics that give her
a life of 6 to 8 weeks. She
doesn't have time to live. What if she isn't
sold to market? She will die nevertheless after
11 weeks. Pushed for absolute weight gain in a
dark shed, she will suffer from bone fractures,
splayed limbs, deformities and wing-beating
convulsions. |
From jammed, barren sheds and the
disease of imprisonment, act now to move
Sophia to a farm where she can perch,
fly and dustbathe. |
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Give generously to support a breakthrough
program for animals that live longer,
develop a natural immunity, can roam and forage
and naturally fertilize the land.
Improve the lives of animals today by
becoming an agent of change through
a simple but powerful act! |
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Industrial agriculture
has permanently altered the ability of
genetics to adapt to climate change and
disease and it has brought immense
suffering to animals. |
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| Transform the face of agriculture by
sponsoring farms that raise resilient
non-industrial animals outdoors, as they were
intended to be. |
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"We are moving into an era of
severe disruption of food production. There has never
been a more pressing need for a system that can ensure
that food is distributed to everyone, according to need.
Yet never has the world's food supply been more tightly
controlled by a small group, whose decisions are based
solely on how much money they can extract for their
shareholders." |
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- GRAIN, Seedling, October 2009
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We are helping farms move towards the
kind of natural agriculture that farmers
and governments around the world are turning to - a
revolutionary change.
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Bring a miracle
to a farm in India |
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raise enough food to feed his family, sell the
surplus to local markets, and fight for his
right to a livelihood. Economists predict that India
will have to import over 250 million tons of
rice and wheat this year. With the prices of
lentils and rice higher than ever before, and
with the twin engines of severe drought followed
by flooding, both sharing equal responsibility
in the destruction of crops
raised for food, any further rise will affect
many, many destitute Indians already well below
poverty level.
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It will be a year of starvation, and millions
will be forced into a debt trap. Thousands will
resort to distress sale of land, their animals
and other belongings. There are already stories
of farmers who have sold their wives and their
daughters into brothels -- bringing untold
misery.
Their animals are the tiniest
victims -- with no farm income left for
nutrient-dense feed, they become malnourished,
are left to fend for themselves or are sold into
harsh conditions. |
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Industrial agriculture
has over the past 50
years brought to India
lines of livestock that
can't adapt to its harsh
environment, and that
have poor resistance to
disease, leaving small
farmers without a source
of food and employment.
We are working with
these Indian farmers to
help them raise strong,
healthy lines of
livestock and
drought-resistant crops.
PGI is changing the
impact of climate change
on the world's most
vulnerable and helping
entire villages fight
for the right to food in
precedent-setting ways. |
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Donate one bamboo treadle
pump
(irrigates 1/2 acre):
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$25.00
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Buy 1/2 acre of
farmland
for a
small landless farmer: |
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$500.00
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