Westside Chiropractic Center

“If farmers were hoping to see a new farm bill this year, they may very well be disappointed — as a new schism between the two houses of Congress was made clear this week, when the Senate agricultural committee released a draft of its farm bill that excluded a law known as the Save Our Bacon Act.

Save Our Bacon, or SOB, would override state and local laws like California’s Prop 12, which bans the sale of pork, chicken, and veal products that come from farms using the most extreme forms of animal confinement, such as gestation crates for hogs.

Experts also argue that passing a farm bill that allows industrial animal agriculture operations to skirt state laws sets a bad precedent for broader environmental and public health goals.”

The farm bill is becoming a backdoor for Big Ag to gut the consumer protections voters actually voted for. Read the full story here.
https://organicconsumers.org/states-want-transparent-laws-around-animal-agriculture-a-fight-in-congress-could-derail-that/

Then take action and tell Congress to remove Section 12006 from the Farm Bill!
https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/72566/action/1