Two bills are pending right now in Congress, the Save Our Bacon Act and the Farm Security Food Protection Act (a repackaged version of the EATS Act) – that would effectively overturn California’s Proposition 12 and laws in a dozen or so other states that impose minimum space requirements for breeding pigs, egg-laying hens, and veal calves. Prop 12 not only mandates minimum space requirements for California farms that are raising animals for food, but also for any livestock operations that want to sell their products in California.

Many in the agriculture sector oppose these laws, saying they place a major and unsustainable financial burden on farmers forced to comply with requirements, and also disrupt interstate commerce, in that they impact the ability of many meat-producing farms to co

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