The Farm Bill provides funding to support agricultural operations and must be passed every five years or extended to maintain the funding.

The 2026 Farm Bill (H.R. 7567, The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026) contains a lot, including some very bad provisions.

The Farm Bill passed the House (224-200) in April, but we still have the opportunity to change the Farm Bill before it is voted on in the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry and then the entire Senate. Below, we detail specific provisions in the Farm Bill.

A GOOD provision: Section 12008: Protection of Greyhounds includes nearly identical language to that of the Greyhound Protection Act of 2025 (H.R. 5017) to do the following:

Restricting greyhound racing, related activities, and the financial incentives to conduct such races, such as betting, would protect greyhound dogs from the suffering inherent to greyhound racing, live lure training, and open field coursing.

Three of the greatest threats to animals in this Farm Bill are:

1. Section 12006: Threat to Farmed Animals

Section 12006 of the Farm Bill, which is nearly identical to that of the Save Our Bacon Act, would prevent states from forbidding the sale of meat derived from farmed animals confined in cruel conditions.

This is in direct response to California's Prop. 12, which prohibits cruel confinement of farmed animals. This precedent would allow other states to pass similar laws that ensure farmed animals are not cruelly confined.

In 2018, California voters approved Proposition 12 (Prop. 12) to require better confinement standards for certain farmed animals, prohibiting the sale of meat from a calf raised for veal, breeding pig, or egg-laying hen confined in a cruel manner. Cruel confinement is defined as that which prevents the animal from lying down, standing up, fully extending its limbs, or turning around freely at any time.

In 2025, Rep. Ashley Hinson introduced the Save Our Bacon Act, H.R. 4673, seeking to prohibit any state from requiring out-of-state meat producers to ensure farmed animals are not cruelly confined.

In another attempt to pass the bill, in 2026, Rep. Glenn Thompson introduced the new Farm Bill, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, H.R. 7567, which included Section 12006, containing nearly identical language to that of the Save Our Bacon Act: he effectively embedded the Save Our Bacon Act within the Farm Bill. Section 12006 of the Farm Bill would also prohibit any state from requiring out-of-state meat producers to ensure farmed animals are not cruelly confined.

2. Section 3201(d): Promoting Mink Fur Industry

Section 3201(d) would repeal a law that prevented federal funds from supporting the U.S. Mink Export Development Council or any mink-industry trade association. This section would thus provide more funds to support mink fur farm operations. With more fur farming, more mink will suffer from the poor conditions and cruelty inherent to modern fur farms. For example, mink farmed for their fur are kept in long rows of tiny wire mesh cages with wire mesh floors so that their feces and urine fall through the bars.

Mink are also solitary and territorial creatures who would naturally spend much of their time in water. On fur farms, however, they live in barren cages, next to one another, unable to engage in natural behaviors, such as swimming and foraging. This causes the mink to display stereotypic, abnormal behaviors such as pacing, gnawing at the cage bars, self-mutilation, and even cannibalism.

The animals meet their end through gassing, decompression chambers, neck-snapping, or electrocution through the mouth and anus.

3. Gosar's Wolf Amendment: Threat to Wolves

Rep. Gosar included an amendment to the Farm Bill, loosening the requirements to prove wolf depredation, which refers to wolves killing farmed animals. This would make it easier for farmers to blame wolves for farmed animal deaths and would allow the government to justify livestock management action, including killing wolf populations. The scientific standards to prove a wolf killed livestock should remain intact. Rep. Gosar's wolf amendment would effectively eradicate these standards.

Take action today!

Please use the template letter below and urge your Senators to SUPPORT Section 12008 and OPPOSE Section 12006, Section 3201(d), and Rep. Gosar's wolf amendment to the Farm Bill.