please donate a few bucks to farm sanctuary's emergency fund! even if it's just $10, it will help a lot! they're rescuing pigs from a factory farm in the mid west that have been found stranded on levees and in desperate need of food. some of these pigs have already drown because they were left inside cages and couldn't get out when the flood hit.
here's the link for more information on how you can help:
http://action.farmsanctuary.org/site/R?i=aCyHIOTiWwjXPIic64pbFA EMERGENCY RESCUE FUND
Stranded Pigs Need Urgent Help!
Flood waters have ravaged the Midwest, and farm animals need immediate rescue! The recent flooding has hit largely agricultural areas, leaving pigs, cattle and other animals stranded.
Hundreds of factory farm pigs have been left trapped and drowning in crates, or freed only to be swept away by rapid currents ... trying desperately to survive on area levees.
Farm Sanctuary dispatched a rescue team with our large animal rescue
trailer last week and we are currently on the ground in Iowa and
Illinois to save drowning and stranded pigs.
Please, give to the Emergency Rescue Fund right now to help our
lifesaving efforts and rescue these stranded, suffering animals:
http://action.farmsanctuary.org/site/R?i=aCyHIOTiWwjXPIic64pbFA..
This rescue is urgent and every moment counts. We, and the pigs, need
your help right now.
Many pigs swam for their lives to the closest land or levee. Many are stranded without food or water. They are desperately clinging to life and waiting for rescuers to arrive.
Farm Sanctuary is working with other organizations to transport surviving pigs to a temporary holding area, and once pigs are in our custody, Farm Sanctuary will be ensuring their immediate care and transport to sanctuary.
We need your gift to the Emergency Rescue Fund today to make this
effort possible.
Please, be there for the pigs today. Make an urgent donation to Farm
Sanctuary's Emergency Rescue Fund:
http://action.farmsanctuary.org/site/R?i=d7pzmrZqa4V-PewXBZdcGA..
HOMES NEEDED
Farm Sanctuary is also in urgent need of adoptive homes for rescued
pigs. If you are able to provide a loving home to a brave survivor of
the Midwest Flood Disaster, please call 607-583-2225 ext. 223.
NEW REPORTS
"After five days in the water, hundreds of pigs were dead, but others had managed to survive. The difficult, dirty and dangerous job of getting the pigs out of the highly contaminated river water began."
http://action.farmsanctuary.org/site/R?i=UrbqrzKStzc_DtoT4_eGiQ..