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BILL: Should We Protect Farm Animals from Natural Disasters? - Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Farm Animals Act - H.R.243
Demand your reps take action on animal welfare
The Bill
H.R.243 - Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Farm Animals Act
Bill Details
- Sponsored by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Jan. 10, 2023
- Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture on Jan. 10, 2023.
- House and Senate: Not yet voted
- President: Not yet signed
Bill Overview
- Every year, millions of animals die during extreme weather events. In 2018, nearly 5.5 million farm animals died during hurricanes Florence and Michael alone.
- Since 2008, over $500 million in taxpayer money has been spent to compensate farmers for losses incurred during disasters under programs like the Emergency Loan Program and Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP). These programs don’t require claimants to prove that they took steps to protect their animals.
- This bill will change that. It will require farmers and producers to take meaningful steps to protect their animals from weather-related deaths prior to receiving tax-payer compensation.
What's in the Bill?
Revises disaster assistance program and creates accountability for animal welfare
- The bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 and the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to require producers to establish disaster preparedness plans to be eligible for certain disaster assistance programs.
Requires meat producers and farmers to establish disaster preparedness plans before a disaster
- Will make contingency plans for animal welfare mandatory.
- Claimants will have to prove that they put the plan into effect when claiming assistance.
What Supporters are Saying
- Rep. Cohen said:
"[A]s we continue to adapt to a rapidly changing climate, emergency planning requirements are necessary to help ensure farmers are prepared, financial losses are reduced, and farm animals are protected."
Demand your reps take action on animal welfare
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They are living creatures no different to ourselves and should be afforded the right to safety from harm irrelevant of which type. They are also farmed as a staple resource that we are dependent on for nutrition so therefore should be treated as a valuable resource and asset that we need in order to survive so that makes it absolutely essentia.l
To ensure that farmers show proof of taking measures to safeguard their livestock against disasters seems like a smart thing to do. My question is is there not insurance that farmers can purchase that would provide compensation for livestock loss due to disasters? If there is then before farmers get gov. asst. for livestock loss due to disaster, then they should have to prove that they had this ins. and then the gov. reimburse the difference between what the ins. pays and what the actual cost of the loss is. Taxpayers should not be on the hook if the farmer has not taken appropriate measures to guard against livestock loss due to natural disasters.
Please support this bill. It is the responsibility of farmers to ensure the welfare of their animals.
All animals should be protected
All animals should be protected
Crows and chickens durning emergency. Well it's a food source that needs to be protected, not only for us, but the world !!!!!
Good grief. This is nonsense and a waste of time given other matters facing us today. How about focusing on the lunatics on the far left that have severed the brake lines as we gain speed on a downhill descent to being a third world country?
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You see what is happening to the people of East Africa as they lose their animals?
We're stewards over animals and should do everything we can to care for them.
farm animals, any animals, need to be treated with the same level of concern as us humans. We will ultimately be suffering more from the losses of these animals to disasters rather than taking a small hit. fewer farm animals = less produce = more expensive produce. the chicken flu was a great example. if you don't save the animals and leave them in dangerous conditions they can get sick and spread it around.
Raise prices by requiring more farmer costs.
We should protect ALL animals from Natual disasters!
This is a stupid bill. . . VOTE NO. Written by people that have never put their hands on a cow, pig or chicken. Farmers are already protecting their investments because THEY ARE THEIR INVESTMENTS!!!
Please work to save animals
The more farm animals die, the less food there is avilable, which drives up pricing even more!
yes coorporations and farmers should have disaster plans in place to protect the farm animals and they need to make sure that these steps r implmented when a disaster hits and that includes conglomerate farms as well
How about saving humans from wanton gouging by corporate crooks - oil companies, insurance companies, practically every conglomerate out there squeezing the last drop of blood from hardworking people - and laughing their way to the bank!
SHAME ON CONGRESS for doing NOTHING to reign in these crooks
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/success/car-insurance-rates-2023
Yes, but start with the agricultural industrial complex. Make sure that large feed lots and chicken farms owned by conglomerates are following this before monitoring smaller farms.
Big Ag gets away with far too much at the expense of health and the environment, so any bills like these need to be sure they are being regulated fully.
Of course! All livestock should be protected because it's a great source of protein and nutrition.
I also think we need to protect these animals from Bill Gates! As he is strictly plant based food, and is promoting his own agenda over the well-being of humanity.