The U.S. House Agriculture Committee has passed its long-awaited $1.5 trillion Farm Bill, including what the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had called dangerous provisions that would directly hit “billions of farm animals, dogs, cats, and other animals”. The ASPCA denounced passage of the House Farm Bill, which it says would overturn existing state and local animal welfare laws, with disastrous consequences for farm animals and higher-welfare farmers. Additionally, it says,...