Sec. 12006
Save Our Bacon preemption (EATS-style)
Strips states of authority to set production standards on agricultural products from other states. Voids Prop 12, MA Q3, ~1,000 state/local rules.
Passed House
Stop Save Our Bacon.
Defend state laws.
Save Our Bacon — the 2026 Farm Bill rider implementing EATS-style preemption — passed the House on April 30, 2026. The Senate is where it lives or dies. The animal-protection coalition is mobilizing every state's two senators.
The bill at a glance
What's on the line
Save Our Bacon would void a generation of state animal-welfare laws.
Prop 12 was a 62.65% landslide in California. Massachusetts Question 3 passed by 78%. Both — and roughly 1,000 other state and local rules — would be voided if Save Our Bacon clears the Senate.
1,000+
state + local laws Save Our Bacon would void
Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program estimate. Includes Prop 12, MA Q3, dozens of puppy-mill, foie gras, fur, horse-slaughter laws.
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80%
of Americans support state laws like Prop 12
Including >75% of Republicans (2022 poll cited by Humane World Action Fund).
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32
senators on the July 2025 opposition letter
Per Humane World — full signatory list pending verification.
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196
House members on opposition letters (Nov 2025)
Including bipartisan strip-amendment leads from FL-13, NY-02, PA-01, CA-21.
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Inside H.R. 7567
Six animal-welfare provisions in one omnibus.
The Farm Bill bundles SNAP, crop subsidies, conservation, trade, and a small but potent set of animal-welfare provisions. The coalition tracks each one. Some are wins. Some are fights.
Sec. 12406
AWA enforcement weakening
Would require 'unrelieved suffering' before USDA can intervene + make action discretionary. Stripped at committee markup; advocates wary of it returning in conference.
Stripped at markup · monitor
Title III · §3201(d)
Mink subsidy reopening
Repeals the 1996 prohibition on federal funds going to the U.S. Mink Export Development Council. Pacelle frames this as a pandemic-risk subsidy (H5N1 / SARS-CoV-2 mink farm history).
Repeal in House draft
Sec. 12005
Healthy Dog Importation Act language
Electronic health records, microchipping, vaccination/parasite verification for imported dogs. Generally supported by animal-welfare orgs and the AKC.
In House bill · supported
PAWS
PAWS grant program reauthorization
Domestic-violence shelter pet-housing grants. Reauthorized through 2031 in the House-passed bill.
Reauthorized · positive
Excluded
Puppy Protection Act (H.R. 2253)
Would set enforceable AWA standards (solid flooring, space, exercise, vet care) for federally-licensed commercial breeders >4 breeding females. Not in the 2026 Farm Bill — recurring loss.
Excluded from Farm Bill
The animal-protection coalition
Eight orgs working to defeat this.
Independent campaigns, shared opposition. The coalition stretches from grassroots ballot-measure architects (the Accountability Board) to Washington legal firepower (ALDF, ASPCA) to shareholder pressure (Humane League corporate work).
Humane World for Animals
(formerly HSUS) · Humane World Action Fund
Lead opponents of Save Our Bacon / EATS. 'Protect State Laws' campaign.
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The Humane League
Open Wing Alliance
Calls EATS the 'single biggest threat to farm animal protections in a generation.' Defeat EATS coalition lead.
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ASPCA
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Active OPPOSE: Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 campaign.
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Animal Legal Defense Fund
ALDF
Litigation posture supporting state farm-animal-welfare laws + active anti-Sec.-12006 campaign.
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Center for a Humane Economy
Wayne Pacelle
Calls H.R. 7567 the 'Factory Farm Bill.' Smithfield-Foods / WH Group critique.
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Animal Wellness Action
AWA · Pacelle 501(c)(4)
Drove strip amendments: animal fighting (#22), horse slaughter (#24), Save Our Bacon (#28), mink subsidies (#39).
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The Accountability Board
Josh Balk
Architect of CA Prop 12 (2018). Shareholder activism on McDonald's, Kroger, Walmart, Burger King for supply-chain animal-welfare commitments.
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Pro-Animal Future
PAF · proanimal.org
Supports defeating EATS in the Senate. Operates this site.
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Where this lands
Five states are at the center of this fight.
Each state page surfaces this fight at the top, with that state's two senators as the action target.
Take action
Two senators from your state decide.
Enter your address. The site returns your senators with phone numbers, a tap-to-call link, and the talking points the coalition uses to oppose EATS.
Two minutes. Talking points + numbers included.