KEEP DANGEROUS LANGUAGE OUT OF THE FARM BILL
U.S. Congress is considering a Farm Bill that threatens decades of animal protection laws. Let your legislators know you oppose any language in the upcoming bill that puts animals at risk!
AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR ANIMALS
Animals face an uncertain future as Congress considers a Farm Bill that puts the lives of millions of cows, pigs and chickens at risk of extreme suffering.
The Farm Bill comes around once every five years. It gives Congress the opportunity to improve our food system and the lives of animals. But House Agriculture Committee Chair GT Thompson recently shared his intention of passing a Farm Bill that could put animals and humans at risk.
Thompson is proposing language that closely resembles the EATS Act, which would prohibit states from making decisions on agricultural products. This means a state cannot decide to ban the sale of products produced through cruel methods, such as confining hens, mother pigs and calves used for veal inside tiny cages.
The United States’ strongest animal protection law, Proposition 12, and Massachusett’s Question 3—both of which ban the production and sale of products produced in this way—are under threat.
The proposed language doesn’t stop at animals. By taking away a state’s right to regulate its agricultural products, this version of the Farm Bill also raises concerns regarding child labor, puppy mills, and protection against lead poisoning.
The most basic protections are at risk, but you hold tremendous power. You can give animals a protected future by reaching out to legislators and asking them to keep this language out of the Farm Bill.
Animal Equality strongly opposes any language in the upcoming Farm Bill that puts the wellbeing of animals at risk. This legislation is an opportunity to improve the lives of farmed animals, not dismantle decades of work done to protect them from the cruelest practices in factory farming.
Maggie Marshall
Legal Advocacy Counsel
PROTECT ANIMALS AT EVERY MEAL
DISCOVER LOVE VEG
By refusing to buy animal products, you’ll let the meat industry know that you don’t support this cruelty. And by simply choosing delicious, plant-based proteins, you’ll protect animals from suffering.
