Where it belongs 🧐

🇺🇲 Who’s responsible for disaster mitigation in animal agriculture? According to Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.), multiple recent crises have shone a light on how the industrial livestock system doesn’t always account for risk and liability, so that responsibility belongs to them. That’s why he has introduced the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act.

     • The Act also seeks to invest resources – the new High-Risk AFO Disaster Mitigation Fund – to enforce disaster mitigation plans and ensure that the most humane practices are used for slaughter and depopulation, if absolutely necessary.

     • Those entities would need to register with the USDA, submit disaster preparedness plans, and pay a fee to establish the fund. 

👀 The full text of the bill can be found here, and the list with the multiple organizations that have pledged their support to the bill is here.