The Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act was introduced in 2023, following a previous bill that failed to make progress in Congress. While its sponsors and industrial agriculture interests claim this bill protects agricultural trade and farmer livelihoods, its real goal is to erase state and local animal welfare regulations that are already in place—all in the name of profit.
The EATS Act ais a direct response to the success of animal welfare bills like Proposition 12, which was recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Existing bans on cruel farming practices, including gestation crates for pigs, battery cages for egg-laying hens, and veal crates for calves, could be undone if this bill passes. Additionally, good laws related to food safety, farm worker protections, environmental standards and even puppy mills may all be at risk.
We cannot roll back progress and allow animals to suffer—help us defeat this attack on animal protection laws.
What You Can Do
Please use the form below to email your members of Congress urging them to oppose the dangerous EATS Act.
On behalf of animals across the country, and in hope of continuing to build a more humane world, thank you!
