More than a dozen legislations penned a letter to Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Glenn “G.T.” Thompson (R-PA-15) and Ranking Member David Scott (D-GA-13), expressing their opposition to the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act.
The legislators wrote that the law is at odds with their “foundational Republican principles of states’ rights, national sovereignty, and fair competition.”
The members continued that while some of them may disagree with policies some states choose to enact (like California’s Proposition 12), it is not their job as federal legislators to dismantle them due to disagreement.
“It is essential that we prioritize U.S. sovereignty in agriculture and resist any obvious or veiled attempts to erode it from foreign actors seeking to control a larger share of production in the homeland and to undermine states’ rights,” the letter concluded.
