HSUS “KIND News” front page, April 2010

This is page one of HSUS’s KIND News (Jr. Edition) publication for April 2010; the newsletter targets children in grades 3 and 4 with nine issues each year. It’s widely distributed in U.S. elementary school classrooms.

In this issue, HSUS tells an emotional, sensationalized story about the supposed health problems of children who live in rural agricultural areas. HSUS then openly recruits minor children (without parental notification) to lobby their elected legislators, the EPA, and the USDA—to take action against “factory farms”:

… It’s up to you to tell the government how you feel about these issues!

You can help by writing to your lawmakers and government agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency …

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