Shareholder Resolution Asks Pizza Chain to Work With Suppliers to End Painful Dehorning
For
Immediate Release:
November
12, 2012
Contact:
Sophia
Charchuk 202-483-7382
Ann Arbor, Mich. -- PETA is campaigning to end "dehorning"—a process in which calves on dairy farms have their horns or horn tissue burned or gouged out of their heads with searing-hot irons, caustic chemicals, blades, or handsaws—by filing a shareholder resolution calling on Domino's to require its dairy suppliers to phase out dehorning by selecting for naturally polled, or hornless, cattle.
"Because of awareness campaigns like PETA's, consumers are learning that cows on dairy farms often have their horns and sensitive horn tissue cut or burned from their skulls in painful procedures," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "If Domino's requires its suppliers to phase out dehorning, the company will stop immense unnecessary suffering."
As shown in PETA's dehorning video exposé, narrated by Academy Award nominee Casey Affleck, workers on dairy farms burn searing-hot irons into calves' heads to destroy horn tissue or use sharp instruments or other tools to saw, gouge, or cut out the horn and sometimes the surrounding tissue. Cows and calves struggle desperately during these procedures, which are routinely performed without giving the animals any painkillers. By breeding for polled cattle—which causes at least half the calves to be born hornless, as the polled gene is dominant—dairy farmers can eliminate the need for this cruel, costly, and labor-intensive procedure.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.