Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman leaves out the SOB Act but leaves other key animal welfare policies, including animal fighting and horse slaughter, for the full committee to handle It was good news yesterday when Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman, R-Ark., released his draft Farm bill, which omits the wicked Save Our Bacon (SOB) Act. … Read more
Creating a Cage-free Future
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy, issued the following statement in response to the release of the draft Farm bill by the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee: The most significant animal welfare development in the Senate Agriculture Committee’s draft Farm bill is what is … Read more
The former leader of the Save Our Bacon (SOB) Act in the U.S. Senate withdraws support for it For more than a decade, the architects of the Save Our Bacon Act have persistently tried to persuade federal lawmakers and federal judges to overturn state animal-welfare laws approved by voters. The courts turned them back in … Read more
Agriculture Committee head also tried (but failed) to gut the greyhound racing ban. The U.S. Senate can correct outcomes at odds with American values I’m still in southern Wisconsin, where the community is abuzz with excitement about the accord I announced yesterday between the Center for a Humane Economy, Big Dog Ranch Rescue, and Ridglan … Read more
“The Rules Committee blocked four GOP-led amendments on animal welfare that were headed to passage, including the Luna-Costa-Garbarino amendment to nix a provision to federally preempt state laws to combat extreme and inhumane confinement of breeding pigs,” said Pacelle. “The Agriculture Committee should not be allowed to wipe out the votes of 10 million American … Read more
U.S. House debate on the bill, replete with provisions to benefit foreign companies and a relative handful of foreign consumers, is here The American public cares deeply about animal well-being. You wouldn’t know it, though, if you dig into the legislative details of the Farm Bill – better defined as the “Factory Farm Bill” – … Read more
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson has put an ugly thumbprint on an inhumane farm bill There have always been hardened opponents of the most important social causes in American history – whether the “fire-eaters” who defended slavery in the antebellum South, the men who mocked women’s suffrage just more than a century ago, or … Read more
There is the stink of foreign influence in Congress as some lawmakers seek to boost international factory farm interests by overturning the will of American voters. The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) has shoveled a load of pig slop to a handful of farm-state lawmakers in Congress in promoting the Save Our Bacon (SOB) Act. … Read more
But the House Agriculture Committee chairman’s crusade in Congress to repeal restrictions on gestation crates may be headed to the U.S. House floor for a showdown Yesterday delivered one more loss for the crowd hellbent on overturning California’s common-sense laws that farm animals should not be kept in cages or crates so small they cannot … Read more
Trump judge dismisses case for lack of standing, in latest setback by government entities and factory farming interests seeking to overturn states’ most consequential farm animal protection laws WASHINGTON, D.C. – Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy celebrated a U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruling tossing the … Read more