If you have trouble viewing this alert, please click here: http://action.farmsanctuary.org/site/MessageViewer If you'd like to share our messeage, please use this link: http://action.farmsanctuary.org/site/TellAFriend Help save 148 hens from “free-range” cruelty! Dear friend of animals,  Farm Sanctuary has just responded to a case involving 148 egg-laying hens from a “free-range” farm, where they were slated to be killed this week.   I mentioned to you recently that a generous supporter of Farm Sanctuary is matching every gift until December 31 up to $30,000 ... now is the time to help farm animals.    These sweet hens are living examples of what goes on behind closed doors even at facilities thought to be “humane.” The hens’ bodies are underweight and  “spent,” as the industry calls them, as a result of intensive and unnatural egg production. And, they show the painful scars of “debeaking.”  What’s worse … without the aid of Farm Sanctuary, they would have been slaughtered at just one to two years of age, though they can naturally live up to 10 years.   Help now with a gift to our Emergency Rescue Fund.  Your donation will be doubled today with this incredible matching gift opportunity. When Farm Sanctuary got the call that an egg farm was closing down, and the hens’ lives were in jeopardy, we responded immediately. But, now, we’re counting on Farm Sanctuary members to help us fund rescues like these, and to give farm animals a second chance at life.  These chickens were found crowded together on the second level of a barn, not freely roaming green pastures. They will forever cope with the mutilation of debeaking - their tender beaks brutally sliced off without anesthesia as tiny chicks - but we can give them the special care they need to live a happy life.    Please, take this moment to DOUBLE your gift and help farm animals at this critical time.  Yours for farm animals,   Gene Baur Farm Sanctuary President and Co-founder  PS.  These hens deserve love and rehabilitation at sanctuary after all that  they’ve suffered. When you send your donation today, your gift will go twice as far toward giving them this gift during the holiday season and helping other farm animals through the Emergency Rescue Fund.  Please, make a gift to our Emergency Rescue Fund by December 31, and that contribution will be MATCHED dollar for dollar.