Animal Protection Voters

U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández(NM 3rd Congressional District), in a House Rules Committee meeting on April 27, 2026, spoke in support of a bipartisan amendment to the House Farm Bill that would have stripped the dangerous “Save Our Bacon Act” language from the bill. As Rep. Leger Fernandez astutely pointed out: humane standards for farmed animals is not only an important “matter of the heart” but also good for consumers and small farmers.

But the dangerous “Save Our Bacon Act” language is still in the Farm Bill—and the Senate now needs to take that language out. Please contact Sen. Ben Ray Luján at 202-224-6621 and urge him to join his New Mexico colleagues in Congress in opposing the “Save Our Bacon Act” and fighting to strip that language out to protect New Mexico’s animals, safeguard consumers and small farmers, and preserve the right to legislate within our state.