| From | Wayne Pacelle <[email protected]> |
| Subject | We face an urgent threat on the EATS Act. We need your help |
| Date | January 24, 2025 9:30 PM |
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Dear friend,
At her confirmation hearing yesterday in a Senate committee, Brooke Rollins, the nominee for U.S. Agriculture Secretary, gave a pretty full-throated defense for overturning Prop 12 and supporting the EATS Act in Congress.
It was a terrible disappointment.
She was fed a lie by Big Pork. Rollins is not only implicitly defending cruelty, but undermining states’ rights and threatening to undercut farmers who have collectively invested hundreds of millions of dollars to adapt to changing markets.
And let’s be clear, the leaders at the National Pork Producers Council don’t have a clue about animal welfare.
Voters, federal judges, and corporate retailers have rejected their arguments time after time when it comes to keeping mother pigs in crates so small that the animals can barely turn around.
In this battle between us and the NPPC, we keep winning and the trade group keeps losing.
In fact, losing in a resounding and repetitive way.
* NPPC got routed at the ballot box in Massachusetts when Amendment 3 came up for a vote. Nearly 80 percent of voters said they want to stop the sale of pork that comes from sows cruelly confined in gestation crates.
*
* California voters made a similar judgment in passing Prop 12 in a landslide.
*
* After voters approved the ballot measures, the NPPC and its allies went to court, claiming Prop 12 and Amendment 3 are unconstitutional. Eleven federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, turned back their challenges. Eleven rulings went our way!
*
* While all of that was going on, 60 major food retailers — including McDonald’s, Costco, and Kroger — adopted policies against gestation crates. Sixty corporate policies! Just about every major food retailer in the nation.
Yes, after facing defeat and an emerging consensus that gestation crates are inhumane, the NPPC still has the temerity and the gumption to go to Congress to try to overturn U.S. laws and the will of millions of Americans who engaged in the most direct form of democratic decision-making.
NPPC is at it again after their EATS Act didn’t move in Congress last year. They are pledging to bring back the EATS Act to nullify Prop 12, Amendment 3, and all other laws that seek to impose any kind of condition or standard in agricultural commerce.
Rollins was wrong to side with the NPPC. It’s demonstrably inhumane to confine breeding sows so severely that they cannot even turn around.
And that confinement isn’t limited to a few minutes or a few hours. Pigs are immobilized for up to three years!
Talk about torment.
The poor, trapped animals resort to biting on the metal bars as an expression of their physical and psychological torment.
All animals deserve humane treatment, including animals raised for food. Perhaps especially animals raised for food, given that they are being sacrificed for human appetite.
The NPPC is working against tens of thousands of pig farmers who don’t use gestation crates and who invested in more humane housing to sell into the California and Massachusetts marketplaces.
The NPPC favors the factory farmers, not the family farmers.
We’ll face serious challenges in Congress from political appointees and lawmakers beholden to factory farming interests. But they don’t have the arguments or popular support.
Again, this year, we can block their awful EATS Act maneuvers to subvert free and fair American elections.
Please take action and let your two U.S. Senators and your U.S. Representative know that the attack on state farm animal laws — which are working and that farmers profit from — is wrong on so many levels.
We’ve fought so hard to win major ballot measures. To defend the laws in the federal courts. Now we must defeat them one more time—in the Congress.
Let’s rally in this new Congress to see that EATS progresses not an inch.
Please take action and write your lawmakers in opposition to the EATS Act today. [[link removed]]
TAKE ACTION [[link removed]]
For all animals,
Wayne Pacelle [[link removed]] Wayne Pacelle
President
Center for a Humane Economy
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Dear friend,
At her confirmation hearing yesterday in a Senate committee, Brooke Rollins, the nominee for U.S. Agriculture Secretary, gave a pretty full-throated defense for overturning Prop 12 and supporting the EATS Act in Congress.
It was a terrible disappointment.
She was fed a lie by Big Pork. Rollins is not only implicitly defending cruelty, but undermining states’ rights and threatening to undercut farmers who have collectively invested hundreds of millions of dollars to adapt to changing markets.
And let’s be clear, the leaders at the National Pork Producers Council don’t have a clue about animal welfare.
Voters, federal judges, and corporate retailers have rejected their arguments time after time when it comes to keeping mother pigs in crates so small that the animals can barely turn around.
In this battle between us and the NPPC, we keep winning and the trade group keeps losing.
In fact, losing in a resounding and repetitive way.
* NPPC got routed at the ballot box in Massachusetts when Amendment 3 came up for a vote. Nearly 80 percent of voters said they want to stop the sale of pork that comes from sows cruelly confined in gestation crates.
*
* California voters made a similar judgment in passing Prop 12 in a landslide.
*
* After voters approved the ballot measures, the NPPC and its allies went to court, claiming Prop 12 and Amendment 3 are unconstitutional. Eleven federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, turned back their challenges. Eleven rulings went our way!
*
* While all of that was going on, 60 major food retailers — including McDonald’s, Costco, and Kroger — adopted policies against gestation crates. Sixty corporate policies! Just about every major food retailer in the nation.
Yes, after facing defeat and an emerging consensus that gestation crates are inhumane, the NPPC still has the temerity and the gumption to go to Congress to try to overturn U.S. laws and the will of millions of Americans who engaged in the most direct form of democratic decision-making.
NPPC is at it again after their EATS Act didn’t move in Congress last year. They are pledging to bring back the EATS Act to nullify Prop 12, Amendment 3, and all other laws that seek to impose any kind of condition or standard in agricultural commerce.
Rollins was wrong to side with the NPPC. It’s demonstrably inhumane to confine breeding sows so severely that they cannot even turn around.
And that confinement isn’t limited to a few minutes or a few hours. Pigs are immobilized for up to three years!
Talk about torment.
The poor, trapped animals resort to biting on the metal bars as an expression of their physical and psychological torment.
All animals deserve humane treatment, including animals raised for food. Perhaps especially animals raised for food, given that they are being sacrificed for human appetite.
The NPPC is working against tens of thousands of pig farmers who don’t use gestation crates and who invested in more humane housing to sell into the California and Massachusetts marketplaces.
The NPPC favors the factory farmers, not the family farmers.
We’ll face serious challenges in Congress from political appointees and lawmakers beholden to factory farming interests. But they don’t have the arguments or popular support.
Again, this year, we can block their awful EATS Act maneuvers to subvert free and fair American elections.
Please take action and let your two U.S. Senators and your U.S. Representative know that the attack on state farm animal laws — which are working and that farmers profit from — is wrong on so many levels.
We’ve fought so hard to win major ballot measures. To defend the laws in the federal courts. Now we must defeat them one more time—in the Congress.
Let’s rally in this new Congress to see that EATS progresses not an inch.
Please take action and write your lawmakers in opposition to the EATS Act today. [[link removed]]
TAKE ACTION [[link removed]]
For all animals,
Wayne Pacelle [[link removed]] Wayne Pacelle
President
Center for a Humane Economy
[[link removed]] DONATE NOW [[link removed]]
[[link removed]] WEBSITE [[link removed]]
[link removed] [[link removed]] [link removed] [[link removed]] [link removed] [[link removed]]
Center for a Humane Economy | PO Box 30845 | Bethesda, MD 208243
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