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A monumental threat is facing animals in our country! Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Congress that could be disastrous for animal welfare.
This year has been historic for animals, with the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the strongest farm animal protection law in the country, California's Proposition 12. The pork industry is now pushing back hard with federal legislation to counter California’s regulations and drag down any state sales laws aimed at addressing animal welfare.
The “Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression” (EATS) Act, H.R. 4417/S. 2019, is designed to wipe out state laws that ban the cruel cage confinement of egg-laying chickens, mother pigs and baby veal calves, and the sale of animal products derived from such cruelty. If passed, it could also destroy hundreds of other protections against terrible cruelties—like abuse of dogs in puppy mills, killing of animals for the wildlife trade, and painful experiments inflicted on animals for cosmetic testing. But it won't stop there. State laws on a vast range of additional agricultural issues are also at risk, including pesticide application on fields, arsenic in food, protection against lead poisoning, chemicals in baby food, pollution standards for spraying sewage on crops, flammability standards for cigarettes, and child labor.
Animals (and people!) need your help to stop the unraveling of even the most basic health and welfare protections.
TAKE ACTION
Please send our pre-written alert to your U.S. Senators and Representative to vote NO to the EATS Act AND any similar legislation in the 2023 Farm Bill.
This year has been historic for animals, with the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the strongest farm animal protection law in the country, California's Proposition 12. The pork industry is now pushing back hard with federal legislation to counter California’s regulations and drag down any state sales laws aimed at addressing animal welfare.
The “Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression” (EATS) Act, H.R. 4417/S. 2019, is designed to wipe out state laws that ban the cruel cage confinement of egg-laying chickens, mother pigs and baby veal calves, and the sale of animal products derived from such cruelty. If passed, it could also destroy hundreds of other protections against terrible cruelties—like abuse of dogs in puppy mills, killing of animals for the wildlife trade, and painful experiments inflicted on animals for cosmetic testing. But it won't stop there. State laws on a vast range of additional agricultural issues are also at risk, including pesticide application on fields, arsenic in food, protection against lead poisoning, chemicals in baby food, pollution standards for spraying sewage on crops, flammability standards for cigarettes, and child labor.
Animals (and people!) need your help to stop the unraveling of even the most basic health and welfare protections.
TAKE ACTION
Please send our pre-written alert to your U.S. Senators and Representative to vote NO to the EATS Act AND any similar legislation in the 2023 Farm Bill.
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