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Dear John,
Animal protections are facing a significant threat. The meat industry is trying to overturn California’s historic Proposition 12.
This important law, passed by an overwhelming majority of California voters in 2018, prohibits egregious cruelty by restricting some of the worst forms of factory farm confinement.
The meat industry has filed three separate lawsuits, one of which is currently on appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. If successful, this lawsuit could overturn not only California’s Prop 12, but also threaten laws across the country that protect animals from other terrible cruelties—like the abuse of dogs in puppy mills, the intensive confinement of wild animals on fur farms, and painful tests involving animals for cosmetic products.
We are part of a coalition working to defend Prop 12 in court, but your help is needed.
Legal briefs filed by the prior administration in support of the meat industry’s lawsuits have not been withdrawn by the current administration, and agribusiness is using them to support its Supreme Court case.
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