A woman who was playing with her daughter on a swing at the park noticed a thirsty Squirrel and opened the tap to give it water. 🐿️🚰
🎦 Credit: Jennifer Silgue.
There’s a corrupt push, buried in the farm bill, to overturn animal welfare laws a number of states have passed that require pigs to be ethically treated in the farming process - what should be a bare minimum standard.
CORPORATE farms are lobbying to undo it, LOCAL farmers support these standards and have already adapted them.
This is the best fact check piece I’ve seen on the Save Our Bacon Act. Please read and act if you feel so compelled.
After 50 years of confinement, elephant Tembo dies at the Topeka Zoo. The zoo will no longer keep elephants, so no more will live & die deprived lives in the zoo. #CaptivityIsCruel#sanctuary#10WorstZoos https://t.co/yB2PLDKYKJ
Imagine your dog trapped in a metal coffin for her entire life. She cannot go outside. She cannot walk. She cannot even turn around to see what's behind her. She is forced to live this way her entire life.
This is the mind-blowing that the pork industry is not just trying to hide, but trying to force YOU to accept through underhanded tactics. It has slipped this provision (the Save Our Bacon Act) into the Farm Bill, legislation that otherwise does things like fund food stamps.
But now that is all being exposed. The NYTimes published an op ed yesterday condemning the corruption and abuse and calling the fight for animals "one of the great but incomplete moral revolutions of our lifetime."
Columnist @NickKristof will be remembered by history for his moral prescience. But this is all being exposed not just because of Kristof. My friend @joshbalk has worked tirelessly to lobby legislators. @Lewis_Bollard has relentlessly pushed this story on social media. @leah_garces has worked for years to successfuly win over allies from within the industry. And, most important, countless Americans like you have raised YOUR voice.
Stories like this NYT piece are in many ways the product of the small efforts of millions. Every person who shares on social media, tells their friends or co-workers about the corruption they've read about, or sheds a quiet tear for these defenseless creatures — you are the ones triggering this moral revolution.
And exposure is just the beginning. Soon, because of you, every animal will be freed from their tormenter's cage.
BREAKING: Senate Ag Chair Boozman confirmed the Farm Bill draft won't include the harmful "Save Our Bacon Act" language!
This leaves Prop 12 protections secure in the Senate's base bill. WE DID THIS through collective action—thank you to everyone who called & emailed!
The fight isn't over. Industrial livestock groups will try to force harmful amendments during markups and on the floor. Keep up the pressure and continue contacting your Senators.
Let's take a collective breath and appreciate this win. Today is a good day for animals. 🐖🐓
Another flight to DC. The fight against big pork continues.
📞Keep the pressure on: Call 202-224-3121 and tell your Senator to oppose the Save Our Bacon Act.
David Attenborough just turned 100 YEARS OLD!
Here's what he has to say about plant-based diets...
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Famous animal welfare scientist Donald Broom said that confining pigs in gestation crates is “much worse than severely beating an animal.” So it says a lot that some meat industry groups, pork companies, and members of Congress are fighting to defend the practice. New story:
“Forget the pig is an animal” they said. Regarding an animal who is the fourth smartest animal on the planet. Shockingly disturbing speech. And we have the power to stop this. Pls call your senators to say no to the farm bill. It’s easy and benefits us all to do so.
Gestation crates became standard in the late 1980s. They're so narrow that a pig is unable to turn around—prevented from even moving for years. Industry publications told farmers to "forget the pig is an animal" and treat her "like a machine in a factory."
Thank you @SenWarren and @SenMarkey for standing against the dangerous anti-state's rights 'Save Our Bacon' language in the #FarmBill.
“We oppose the inclusion of a provision in the House-passed Farm Bill to preempt state-level animal welfare and agricultural protection laws,” said the Senators. “This is a highly controversial and poisonous policy that ignores the will of the people. These state laws were overwhelmingly supported by a popular vote—they shouldn’t be overridden because of big-dollar lobbying. We have significant concerns about the House-passed Farm Bill, including this overreaching and harmful provision that should not be in the Farm Bill and needs to be removed.”
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FARM BILL UPDATE: The House narrowly passed the Farm Bill with the dangerous SOBA language included. This provision would strip states of the right to ban cruel animal confinement.
Now, the fight moves to the Senate and the animals need your help:
📞 CALL: 1-(202) 224-3121 (Call both Senators)
📢 SAY: “I’m a constituent. Vote NO on any Farm Bill with SOBA/EATS Act language.”
📧 EMAIL: Link in bio.
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We can still win this if we raise our voices together.
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Imagine being elected to Congress and using your power to keep this legal.
Not healthcare, education, or anything that benefits your constituents but cruelty to animals.
Then imagine being a Republican who actively supports taking away states rights.
📞 CALL: 202-224-3121 and ask for your Representative’s office.
📢 WHAT TO SAY: “I am a constituent calling to urge the Representative to vote NO on the Farm Bill unless the SOBA/EATS Act language (Section 12006) is removed.”
#Farmbill