Battery cages. Photo courtesy of Farm Sanctuary (farmsanctuary.org). Remember the movie Napolean Dynamite? Pretty funny! But do you remember Napoleon’s job testing milk and putting chickens back in battery cages? Not funny.

The Protect Interstate Commerce Act (PICA) sounds innocuous enough. Encouraging interstate commerce sounds like a good thing! Until you find out that PICA, also known as The King Amendment after its sponsor, Representative Steve King of Iowa (R), seeks to promote interstate commerce by rolling back animal protection laws. The most frequently cited law that the King Amendment would affect is California’s Proposition 2 which requires farmers in California and other states supplying California to provide a moderately larger amount of space in cages and crates so that animals do not live in extreme confinement. King Amendment supporters would deny any individual state to enact these animal welfare laws arguing that it discourages commerce. Here’s the Humane Society of the United State’s fact sheet detailing more laws that may be threatened by the King Amendment.

It literally takes a few seconds to fill out this form and tell your legislators that you want them to oppose the King Amendment. Please sign and then consider encouraging others to do the same.