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Please Oppose Any Legislation Invalidating Proposition 12
Dear Legislator,
As a constituent who cares about the welfare of animals, supporting higher-welfare farmers and building a more humane food system, I am urging you to oppose any legislation that would invalidate California’s Proposition 12 and other state animal welfare protections. This includes the “Save Our Bacon Act” and the “Food Security and Farm Protection Act” (S. 1326), which are rebranded versions of the “Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act. In addition to erasing popular common sense animal welfare protections, these proposals would hurt farmers and consumers and would infringe on states’ rights.
California’s Proposition 12 (Prop 12) is one of many popular, commonsense state animal protection laws that sets housing standards for egg, pork and veal production and for egg, pork and veal products sold into the state. Compassion for animals is almost universal and bipartisan, with 80% of the public supporting confinement laws, in addition to the thousands of farmers across the country who have supported these animal protection laws.
The EATS Act and its counterparts would erase state standards, forcing states to allow commerce in products they chose to ban. The EATS Act would also threaten more than 1,000 existing state public health and safety laws regulating agricultural products, risking the well-being of the very citizens they were put in place to protect. Furthermore, overturning state confinement laws would remove important market opportunities and financial incentives for farmers, disadvantaging those who have already made the investment in more humane animal housing systems.
We cannot compromise on states’ rights, farmer livelihoods or the welfare of over 10 billion farm animals. I urge you to oppose these efforts to undermine states’ rights.
Please Continue to Oppose the Rebranded EATS Act
Dear Legislator,
As a constituent who cares about the welfare of animals, supporting higher-welfare farmers and building a more humane food system, I am writing to thank you for opposing the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act. I urge you to also oppose the “Save Our Bacon Act” and the “Food Security and Farm Protection Act” (S. 1326), which are rebranded versions of the “Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act. These bills – no matter what they are named – attack the rights of states and localities and threaten countless state and local laws already in place, including those that protect animal welfare.
This type of legislation is a blatant attempt by industrial agriculture to ignore the growing demand for more humane treatment of farm animals. Critical animal protections, like bans on cruel confinement, are threatened by these dangerous proposals, in addition to countless other environmental, food safety and labor protections. We cannot compromise on states’ rights, farmer livelihoods or the welfare of over 10 billion farm animals. Federal law should complement state animal protection laws, not prevent them. All of these attempts to invalidate state animal welfare laws are irresponsible and harmful, and I urge you to continue opposing these efforts to undermine states’ rights.
Please Continue to Oppose the Rebranded EATS Act
Dear Legislator,
As a constituent who cares about the welfare of animals, supporting higher-welfare farmers and building a more humane food system, I am writing to urge you to oppose the “Save Our Bacon Act” and the “Food Security and Farm Protection Act” (S. 1326), which are rebranded versions of the “Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act. These bills – no matter what they are named – attack the rights of states and localities and threaten countless state and local laws already in place, including those that protect animal welfare.
This type of legislation is a blatant attempt by industrial agriculture to maintain the status quo and ignore the growing demand for more humane treatment of farm animals. Critical animal protections, like bans on cruel confinement, are threatened by these dangerous proposals, in addition to countless other environmental, food safety and labor protections. We cannot compromise on states’ rights, farmer livelihoods or the welfare of over 10 billion farm animals. Federal law should complement state animal protection laws, not prevent them. All of these attempts to invalidate state animal welfare laws are irresponsible and harmful, and I urge you to oppose these efforts to undermine states’ rights.