US legislative update: The king amendment

Abstract

The article is about farm animal welfare legislation in the United States. It discusses the progress made by advocates in passing state laws and ballot measures to ban gestation crates, veal crates, and battery cages for farm animals, as well as the industry’s efforts to counter these measures by pushing for preemption of state laws at the federal level. The article also discusses the need for advocates to build bipartisan political power to effectively oppose anti-animal welfare legislation and to enact comprehensive legal protections for farm animals. – AI-generated abstract.