What’s Happening With California Prop 12, the Farm Bill and Save Our Bacon Act?

WASHINGTON—As the United States Congress continues debate around the Farm Bill, a multi-year agricultural legislative package, Humane World for Animals and Humane World Action Fund, formerly called Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund, offer the following background on farm animal protection laws and why the Save Our Bacon Act is bad news.

“The House Farm Bill chose corporate interests over the will of voters, but three House Republicans broke ranks, and we will build on that resistance in the Senate. For more than a decade, we have fought state by state to end the cruel confinement of farm animals, and we successfully defended California’s landmark Proposition 12 all the way to the Supreme Court. We are not going to let Congress undo that progress,” said Sara Amundson, president of Humane World Action Fund.