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Help Defeat the Farm Bill's King Amendment!

Help Defeat the Farm Bill's King Amendment!

U.S. Residents – Please ask your Representatives to reject the King Amendment to the 2013 Farm Bill. The King Amendment, proposed by Representative Steve King of Iowa, claims to protect interstate commerce, but in reality it is designed to undermine animal welfare laws enacted by individual states. King states on his website that he is specifically targeting the California law which will only allow eggs to be sold from hens housed in less restrictive cages, as specified by the state, by 2014. [singlepic id=233 w=320 h=240 float=right]

Ninety-five percent of egg-laying hens spend their entire short, miserable lives crammed into tiny cages with as many as ten hens per cage. Battery cages are stacked on top of one another and are packed into windowless sheds with thousands of hens per shed. Hens are so confined in battery cages that each bird has less than the size of a sheet of paper to herself. These hens never get to breathe fresh air, see the sunlight, nest, forage, or even turn around.

Hens should not be confined to battery cages, and according to the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, states should be able to ban the sale of agricultural products if they are not produced in a manner approved by that state. Please ask your Representatives to oppose the King Amendment to the 2013 Farm Bill.

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