Hidden in the 2026 Farm Bill is Section 12006 — a provision that would wipe out animal welfare laws in 15 states overnight.
Laws that voters passed by wide margins to ban the cruelest factory farm practices: pregnant pigs crammed in cages so small they can’t turn around, chickens packed into wire battery cages, calves confined in veal crates.
But Section 12006 goes further. It would block states from passing any new animal welfare laws, creating a race to the bottom that undoes over a decade of progress. Who benefits? Foreign corporations like China’s Smithfield and Brazil’s JBS that control our meat production and don’t want to follow our animal welfare standards.
These foreign companies go to the U.S. Congress to demand relief! Incredibly, our members of Congress comply, crafting special provisions to exempt bad actors from rules the states and the courts are trying to enforce.
This isn’t just about animal cruelty — it’s about who gets to decide how our food is produced. Section 12006 hands that power to foreign corporations while stripping it away from American voters and states.
Section 12006 of the 2026 Farm Bill would invalidate laws in 15 states that ban the cruelest methods of confinement for farm animals, including ballot measures that passed with wide public support.
China owns Smithfield, our largest pork producer. Brazilian JBS is our biggest beef company. Section 12006 would destroy U.S. food sovereignty by taking away our right to regulate factory farmed meat production controlled by foreign corporations.
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