Maha movement helps to kill bill seeking US food-safety rollbacks

The attempt to pre-empt food-labeling laws is part of a broader effort across multiple industries to kill state laws that protect the public from dangerous chemicals. Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency recently introduced rules that would pre-empt hundreds of state-level protections that restrict Pfas, lead, formaldehyde and dozens of other toxins in consumer goods. 

A US House bill aims to kill state protections around pesticides, and another effort is attempting to undo state-level animal welfare rules...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/maha-food-safety-laws-us 

From the economy to animal welfare, here are 10 good things that happened in 2023 - Vox

This was a hard year. But these 10 news stories remind us a better future is possible…

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/12/28/24003198/10-good-things-that-happened-in-2023

From cage-free chicks to puppy mills and Avian flu: Republicans are trying to roll back animal protections

The Republican-led Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression, or Eats, Act aims to end the authority of states and localities to set animal welfare and food safety standards. If passed, it could also jeopardize more than 1,000 state and local health and safety laws that set food-quality requirements and stop the spread of invasive species and zoonotic diseases like avian flu. Experts say that legislation this extreme would ordinarily be unlikely to pass, but its supporters are pushing the Eats Act as part of this year's critical package of agriculture policies known as the farm bill, so there's a greater possibility of it becoming law...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/22/republicans-animal-welfare-law-food-safety