Big Pork lost in court. Now they're trying Congress.
When 63% of California voters passed a law to end extreme animal confinement, the Supreme Court backed them up. So Big Pork went to Congress instead.
Hidden inside the Farm Bill is a bill called the "Save Our Bacon Act." It sounds like it helps farmers. It doesn't.
Independent family farmers across the country saw the writing on the wall years ago. They invested their own money to upgrade their operations, better housing and higher welfare standards, and consumers have rewarded them for doing things right. The "Save Our Bacon Act" makes that investment worthless overnight.
Who wins? Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the U.S., now Chinese-owned, and four other giant meat companies who wrote this bill for their own benefit.
Who loses? The American family farmers who bet on a better system. And the millions of voters whose voices Congress is about to erase.
The pork industry has never won a single ballot fight on this issue. Not in California. Not in Massachusetts. Not in Arizona. So now they're trying to win in DC.
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