this week in reading📖
finished:
Slewfoot by Gerald Brom
in progress:
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
up next:
Feeders by Matt Serafini
@svershbow Also if you see this and you think he’s the extra most handsome, adopt Howie!!! He is available through Foster2Forever and can be transported anywhere in the US ❤️ https://t.co/qi0y7zdaoU
Most humans either cant think one step deeper, or refuse to do so if its not an advantage to them personally.
Almost no one would personally treat an animal like this. But almost all of them would buy factory farmed meat even though it means that animals have been treated like this.
They don’t want to think that one step.
Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates.
Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023.
Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state.
The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices.
Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at https://t.co/MQvByA4atR and https://t.co/v6ghw99u1K — it takes two minutes and it matters.