Aaron Cohen: The Farm Bill, The EATS Act and What You Need to Know

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Society & Culture, Philosophy

5 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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“I call the act a poison pill, because really, what it is, is if it ever gets inserted into the farm bill or if it gets passed on its own, it prevents all of the animal centered organizations, all the environmental organizations, all the family farm and rural community organizations that push back against factory farming. It wipes out all of the progress that they've made.”

Aaron Cohen is the senior director of advocacy at Farm Sanctuary. I asked Aaron to come on the show because I wanted to talk about some important things happening in our government right now. Starting with the delayed passage of the Farm Bill.

The Farm Bill covers laws that govern food and farming and has a tremendous impact on farming livlihoods, how food is grown, and what kinds of food are grown.

A group of Congressional lawmakers are pushing to include the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act as part of the 2023 Farm Bill. If passed, the EATS Act would have serious implications for animal welfare and every ounce of progress that the animal protection movement has made against factory farming. It could also have a huge effect on farmer well-being, worker safety, the spread of zoonotic diseases and pollution. It’d be disastrous.

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0:00.0	I'd call the eats act a poison pill because really what it is is if it ever gets
0:18.8	inserted in the farm bill or if it gets passed on its own. It prevents all of the animal-centered
0:24.7	organizations, all the environmental organizations, all the family farm and
0:28.6	rural community organizations that push back against factory farming.
0:33.0	It wipes out all of the progress that they've made. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask. If you like today's episode and you have a spare minute could you please
0:54.9	rate and review Species Unite on Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts it
1:01.5	really helps people to find the show.
1:04.0	This conversation is with Aaron Cohen.
1:11.0	Aaron is the This conversation is with Aaron Cohen.
1:14.0	Aaron is the senior director of advocacy at Farm Sanctuary.
1:18.0	I asked Aaron to come on the show today because I wanted to talk about some really important things happening in our government right now.
1:25.8	The first is the delayed passage of the Farm Bill, which is a package of legislation that has an enormous
1:31.6	impact on farming livelihoods, how food is grown, what kind of foods are grown.
1:37.0	It funds our food and agriculture systems.
1:40.0	And the other is the Eats Act, which is the ending agricultural trade suppression act.
1:47.0	If the Eats Act is passed, it could have serious implications for animal welfare and for every ounce of progress that the
1:54.1	animal protection movement has made in our food system. It could also have a huge
1:59.4	effect on farmer well-being on worker safety, the spread of zoonotic diseases, and pollution. Hi Aaron, thank you so much for being here.
2:13.0	Thank you so much for being here.
2:22.8	Thank you so much for having me.
2:24.5	I want to start by talking about Farm Sanctuary.
2:27.9	Will you give us some background on what Farm Sanctuary is
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