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So today is The Hen Report, and we have a very special wingman joining us.

And you're already familiar with Matthew's work.

Matthew Dominguez is here with an update on the Save Our Bacon Act, otherwise known as the SOB Act.

Matthew, who was on the podcast quite recently, is, of course, the U.S. Director for Compassion in World Farming. Welcome back, Matt. Thanks for

being here. Thank you so much for having me on, especially on this important issue. Absolutely.

We're super excited about having you on. Marianne, why don't you kick us off? Yeah. I mean, you actually initiated this and asked to come on to talk about the SOB Act, which is hugely important, and why people in the U.S. should be calling their senators, now senators, to prevent this from passing. I thought maybe we would just start out by opening the floor to you, and can you just kind of give us your spiel on what you came on to say? And then maybe we can ask some follow-up questions.

Absolutely. Always, always happy to shout farm animals. So as many of your listeners know, and I know that you all know, that over the course of the last several decades, farm animal protection organizations, activists, advocates, we have

been fighting hard in states, state by state by state, to pass laws to ban the cruelest practices

that happen on factory farms, namely the extreme confinement of chickens, pigs, and veal calves.

We've had a lot of success.

In California, in Massachusetts, in Colorado, in Michigan,

we have banned the cruel confinement anywhere between eight and 12 states depending on the species.

In California, we ran a ballot measure that passed with over 60%. In Massachusetts, the question

three ballot measure passed by over 70%. So we know that Americans care that the animals that are raised on farms are at least treated with a modicum of decency and at least enough space to stand up and turn around. And of course, what we know is the meat industry, the factory farming industry's response to all of this work isn't to move away from the cruel confinement that their customers don't want,

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