The 2018 farm bill is headed for a contentious battle in a conference committee made up of House and Senate lawmakers who passed different versions of the legislation in their respective chambers this month.
While lawmakers negotiating a final farm bill agreement may end up fighting like cats and dogs, they will least agree no one should eat them.
A provision banning the consumption of cat and dog meat in the U.S. was added to the Senate farm bill by Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, D-N.Y., before it passed Friday. It’s the same provision included in the farm bill House lawmakers approved last week.
The inclusion in both bills all but guarantees it will make it into law when a final farm bill passes later this year.
“Cats and dogs are our companions, and we need to ensure they aren’t being killed for food,” Gillibrand, who sits on the Senate Agriculture Committee, said. “It is outrageous that this practice is not currently illegal in the United States.”
The provision prohibits killing cats and dogs for food and it bans importation of cat and dog meat.
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House and Senate agree: No eating cats and dogs https://t.co/kBSYlVfqh8 pic.twitter.com/nmCJyOANiG
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