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Friend,
The fight is heating up over the Farm Bill—the House Agriculture Committee voted 33-21 to pass a Farm Bill out of committee containing dangerous language attempting to “fix” Prop 12, but this language is really just a hand-out to giant multinational pork producers that want to keep farm animals locked in cruel and extreme confinement.
We need every animal advocate to stand with us to stop this bill from advancing any further.
Allies of some industrial pork producers in Congress have made it clear they've got their eyes set on invalidating California's Prop 12—one of the nation’s strongest laws on farm animal welfare—through this year's Farm Bill and they've just made their first move. We need you to act NOW and tell your legislators you oppose any language in the Farm Bill that seeks to nullify state animal protection laws, like Prop 12.
Those pushing this language are more concerned with the bottom lines of giant multinational meat producers than treating animals more humanely. Prop 12 and other state animal welfare laws seek to reduce animal suffering and public health risks by banning the sale of products derived from the cruelest methods of confinement, including gestation crates—metal bar cages that are so small they prevent mother pigs from even turning around.
They already tried this with the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act, but you spoke up. Now they're trying it through the Farm Bill, so we need you to act NOW.
If we don’t succeed in stopping this, even the most basic protections for animals could disappear, dooming animals to lives of suffering and cruelty. Please tell your legislators that Prop 12 and other state animal welfare laws do not need to be “fixed” and urge them to oppose language in the Farm Bill that seeks to nullify state animal protection laws.
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