“If You Do One Thing for Animals This Year, Do This” by Becca Rogers

There is a short window to prevent a US bill that would overturn decades of animal welfare progress. This is arguably the most consequential piece of farm animal legislation in U.S. history.

Summary

The Farm Bill currently being considered by the U.S. Congress includes the “Save Our Bacon Act”, which would eliminate states' abilities to set standards on how farmed animals are raised and treated¹, and void existing state animal welfare laws. If passed into law, it would undo decades of animal welfare progress, and greatly reduce opportunities for future animal welfare wins.

The Farm Bill has passed the House with the Save Our Bacon Act (SOB) included, and it will soon be considered by the Senate. This is the biggest legislative threat to farmed animal welfare in U.S. history, and preventing the Save Our Bacon Act from passing Congress is the highest impact opportunity to help animals that there has been in years. If you do anything to help animals this year, it should be helping with this.

Call script, email templates, and more here.

What to do

• Easiest, highest priority action (5 min): Call and email both your senators, and ask them to publicly [...]

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Outline:

(00:21) Summary

(01:15) What to do

(04:55) Higher-effort actions

(07:22) Context on the Save Our Bacon (SOB) Act

(07:28) What is the Save Our Bacon (SOB) Act?

(08:23) What would be this laws effect on animal welfare?

(10:08) What is SOBs status in Congress?

(10:57) Strategy

(11:00) What are the goals?

(11:44) Which Senators would be the highest impact to persuade to oppose SOB?

(13:04) How to talk about this with different audiences

(17:00) Footnotes

(17:07) Appendix

(17:10) More details on the goals

(18:32) Which Senators would be the highest impact to persuade to oppose SOB?

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First published:
May 4th, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/vsYphZaBcXpmtNizp/if-you-do-one-thing-for-animals-this-year-do-this-1

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