Organization for Competitive Markets launches Politico ad campaign to help defeat the EATS Act.

Washington, D.C. – The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) this week launched a campaign against the EATS Act, a proposed bill that would have a devastating impact on America’s farming and ranching families. The campaign launched with a major ad buy in Politico and will continue throughout the upcoming Farm Bill debate.

The so-called Exposing Agriculture Trade Suppression (EATS) Act led by Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, a Trojan Horse and attack on states’ rights, is set to be introduced in an attempt to include the measure in the upcoming Farm Bill. It’s a replica of the controversial “King Amendment” championed by former Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and is the biggest attack on states’ rights America’s rural communities have likely ever faced. The “King Amendment” failed to make it into the past two farm bills after bi-partisan opposition to it the egregious amendment. Now, legislators working for industrial agriculture interests have rebranded hoping most would not notice.

This legislation could wipe out hundreds of laws passed by state and local legislations that benefit family farms over international conglomerates, as well as those that support dairy farmers, baby food safety, and control the infestation of invasive pests.