Billy Corgan to CPK: Stop Mutilating Calves

Smashing Pumpkins founder and frontman Billy
Corgan is the latest star to speak out against the cruel practice of dehorning cattle.
Billy is calling on California
Pizza Kitchen to make the responsible and ethical decision to demand that its cheese
suppliers stop this barbaric practice.

© StarMaxInc.com

I
have viewed the photos
and watched PETA’s investigative video
of these procedures, and I was appalled to see young calves who struggled and
writhed in pain as searing hot irons burned their heads. The industry has noted
that the burns are so severe that they may damage the underlying bone. Other
practices, which include using caustic chemicals to eat away at the horn-bud
flesh via a chemical burn, are no better. … I strongly urge you to take
immediate action to stop this unspeakable barbarism by requiring your suppliers
to phase out dehorning.

Instead of using
these excruciating dehorning methods, farmers can instead breed for naturally
hornless, or “polled,” cattle. Just as farmers select for traits such
as coat color, they can select for the hornless gene. And since a single gene
determines whether a cow will have horns and the polled gene is dominant over
the horned gene, with selective breeding new generations of cows can be born
without the gene for horns.

Several
other companies have taken steps to eliminate the cruel practice of dehorning, and Billy urges California Pizza Kitchen to follow suit. He is one of several
celebrities, including Ryan
Gosling and Casey Affleck, who want to see an end to this brutal, painful, and unnecessary practice
immediately.

Billy
is no stranger to raising his voice to protect animals. He’s been a staunch
supporter of PETA’s Kentucky
Fried Cruelty campaign and PETA Asia’s campaign to free Mali. 

What You Can Do

Please join Billy Corgan in writing to California Pizza
Kitchen and urging the company to require its cheese suppliers
to stop dehorning.