We Must Stop the Save Our Bacon Act
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
You can make a difference!
What is this Act?
Animal welfare has been assumed in people's minds as a given, and the fact of the matter is, 74% of farmed animals globally and 99% in the U.S., according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), have been abused through extreme confinement, physical alterations without any pain relief, intense genetic selection, and slaughter stress. While many put this out of their minds, industries like the National Pork Council profit from the countless abuses inflicted because of their ignorance. Two of the many propositions have been passed and held up and upon this new bill joining the bunch, it will unravel decades of progression.
California’s Proposition 12 and Massachusetts’ Question 3 were passed to protect the rights of these animals in the factory. These rights banned the sale of pork, eggs, and veal from animals in these types of confinement: mother pigs confined in gestation crates, hens confined in battery cages, and calves confined in veal crates, and any animal produced through such extreme methods of confinement. These bills saved roughly 40 million to 50 million animals at any given time, according to The WellBeing International Studies Repository (WBI). If this act is included in the upcoming Farm Bill of 2026, it will entirely abolish those two very important animal rights bills.
Why do we need to stop it?
To begin to reverse the impacts of climate change, we have to understand what animal agriculture’s effects have on the environment, specifically the unregulated disposal of waste and emissions. First, there are over 1.7 billion chickens, pigs, cows, and other animals being raised for food across the United States, and over 10 billion farm animals are slaughtered annually, according to the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).
Apart from the torture, raising animals in these extreme conditions does enormous environmental damage. Globally, animal agriculture represents 14.5% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. While much of these emissions are from the methane produced by cows, the massive feed-crop production and manure associated with all cattle, pork, and poultry are also contributors to air and water pollution as well as climate-warming emissions.
In the US alone, these animals produce an estimated 941 billion pounds of manure each year, which is untreated and unregulated by the government. Nearly 50% of corn and 70% of soy grown in the U.S. is produced to feed animals raised in these conditions. These crops consume huge quantities of water and require enormous amounts of fossil fuels and pesticides. All of these statistics are direct effects on the environment and global warming, specifically due to greenhouse gasses.
In an attempt to continue poisoning the earth for profit, the federal government doesn’t consider the animal agriculture industry a major industry, so the state air and water pollution regulations do not have to apply. This is why we need this bill not to pass, so there will be no more loosening of regulations.
How can YOU make a difference?
Sign petitions: https://c.org/NLWwL9Hcjw
Get involved in local activist groups
Talk to your township
Go Vegan: https://sites.google.com/mtps.us/the-peace-revolution/go-vegan (my organizations page on veganism and why)
Educate yourself and others!!!
Sage Baron
15 Years Old
New Jersey Coordinator
Moorestown NJ, USA