Pigs, chickens, calves, and farm animals across the country need your help.
Factory farm interests have introduced the “EATS Act” in Congress to overturn humane legislation that prohibits egregious animal cruelty.
This is agribusiness’ response to a recent Supreme Court ruling that upholds Proposition 12, a California law that was passed in 2018 with overwhelming public support through a citizens’ initiative to ban the cruel confinement of animals in veal crates, gestation crates, and battery cages where they can’t walk, turn around or even stretch their limbs.
The EATS Act would undermine states’ efforts to address the harms of factory farming. Besides nullifying animal protection laws, worker, community, and environmental protections could also be wiped off the books.
Earlier this year, Big Ag lost when they tried to overturn “Prop 12” in the Courts. The Supreme Court sided with California voters and a team of co-intervenors led by the Humane Society of the United States and including Farm Sanctuary. The ruling protected progress for mother pigs and baby calves in gestation and veal crates in California. It also protected voters’ and states’ rights to protect animals, and themselves, from the harms of factory farming.
