Increased Accountability for Factory Farms: Protecting Animals, Workers, and the Environment.
This Act mandates new responsibilities for large industrial farms regarding disaster planning, funding cleanup costs, and ensuring minimum labor standards for workers and contract growers. It bans cruel mass killing methods, shortens animal transport times, and extends humane slaughter rules to poultry and nonambulatory animals. The goal is to enhance food safety, environmental protection, and worker rights.
Key points
Banning cruel mass depopulation methods (like ventilation shutdown) with severe penalties for non-compliance, and requiring operators to fund disaster costs.
Mandating health insurance coverage and severance pay for workers and contract growers affected by disaster events for up to two years.
Ending high-speed slaughter and self-inspection systems, while significantly increasing funding for federal food safety and occupational safety inspectors.
Requiring immediate humane euthanasia for animals unable to walk and prohibiting the processing of their meat for consumption.
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