[Peace-discuss] Humane Society targets Rep. Davis on farm bill amendment that threatens California law

[Robert Naiman]

This is interesting to me because 1) the Humane Society is a huge
organization with people everywhere in the U.S. and 2) they are hardliners
on protecting the power of the people to democratically regulate
capitalism, especially the conditions under which commodities are produced.
That's why they're "good on trade," and hate the WTO and NAFTA as much as
they should. If you think you have a right to know whether the workers who
made the jeans you're wearing had bathroom breaks, if you think you have a
right to know how old the kids were who picked the lettuce you're eating,
their fight is your fight. So it would be a very good thing for humanity in
general if the Humane Society wins this fight.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/agriculture/189253-humane-society-launches-ad-buy-over-farm-bill

November 05, 2013, 10:25 am
Humane Society targets farm bill amendment
By Erik Wasson

The lobbying arm of The Humane Society has taken out $100,000 in online ads
in its quest to get a key animal rights amendment stripped from the 2013
farm bill.

The ads, which began running Friday, target members of the newly formed
House-Senate farm bill conference committee, which began work last
Wednesday.

At issue is an amendment sponsored by conservative Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)
that attempts to stop states like California from banning goods made in
other states based on the means of production.

The California law is aimed at eggs laid by hens kept in battery cages, and
helped spur an agreement between the Humane Society and the United Egg
Producers to phase out battery cages. A smaller group of egg producers and
lobbyists for other growers, including pig farmers, are behind the King
amendment.

The Humane Society Legislative Fund is targeting Sens. Max Baucus
(D-Mont.), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Reps.
Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), Tim Walz (D-Minn.), Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.),
Steve Southerland (R-Fla.), Martha Roby (R-Ala.), *Rodney Davis (R-Ill.)*,
Austin Scott (R-Ga.), and Glenn Thompson (R-Pa..).

In 2012, the Humane Society Legislative Fund spent heavily in a failed
effort to defeat King, whom the group views as its chief foe in Congress.



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Robert Naiman
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