After the Supreme Court upheld California's Proposition 12, a commonsense farm animal protection law passed overwhelmingly by Californians in 2018, lobbyists for the pork industry have turned to Congress to push for federal legislation to undo not just Proposition 12, but potentially any state sales regulation aimed at addressing farm animal welfare.
The Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act (S. 2019/H.R. 4417) is designed to wipe out state laws that ban the sale of products from cruelly confined egg-laying chickens, mother pigs and veal calves. If the EATS Act, or anything like it, is passed, it could also destroy hundreds of other state laws aimed at terrible cruelties, like the abuse of dogs in puppy mills, as well as state laws meant to protect humans, like laws regarding food safety and public health.. Animals (and people) need your help to stop the unraveling of even the most basic protections. Oppose the EATS Act!
9.8 Billion
Land Animals
Are raised on U.S. factory farms and killed in slaughterhouses every year, including 9.3 billion chickens.
The size of an
iPad
Battery cages for egg-laying hens force each bird to live her entire life on less space than the dimensions of an iPad.
Roughly
7x2 ft
Gestation crates are so small they prevent mother pigs from even turning around.
Oppose the EATS Act!
Farm Animals
Stop a dangerous bill that could wipe out animal cruelty laws
Urge your legislators to oppose the EATS Act, which could wipe out multiple pro-animal state laws.
Who Opposes the EATS Act?
Farmers & Producers
Elected Officials
Legal Professionals
Veterinary Community
Americans from all backgrounds oppose the EATS Act, or anything like it. For many years, we’ve successfully made the case against extreme confinement methods in industrial agribusiness as both cruel to animals and dangerous to human health.
