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As Congress considers the pork lobby\u2019s number one priority in this upcoming Farm Bill, the so-called \u201cSave Our Bacon Act\u201d (SOB Act), lawmakers should ask one question: who does that lobby actually represent?<\/p>\n

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You know Smithfield Foods, the seemingly all-American brand behind Nathan\u2019s Famous hot dogs? Recent filings show the company is actually 86.9 percent Chinese-owned.<\/p>\n

Smithfield\u2019s majority owner is WH Group, a conglomerate linked to the Chinese Communist Party that is the world\u2019s largest pork producer and that controls over a quarter of America\u2019s pork industry. On WH Group\u2019s behalf, Smithfield helps govern and bankroll the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), Washington\u2019s powerful pork lobby.<\/p>\n

Although the Pork Council claims to be the voice of American farmers, it is China\u2019s WH Group that has the most to gain from the lobby\u2019s signature bill. The measure would nullify state laws setting minimum standards for how farm animals are raised, most notably banning \u201cgestation crates,\u201d metal cages barely larger than a pig\u2019s body in which a mother pig cannot turn around for nearly her entire life. Thousands of small- and mid-size American farmers have invested to meet these standards because they offer a rare lifeline in today\u2019s consolidated industry. Without them, the critical market these producers have carved out will collapse.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what China and its Washington lobby want, and the motivation is right out in the open. The Communist Party\u2019s own China Weekly<\/em> celebrated the SOB Act as a measure that \u201cwill significantly increase China\u2019s share of the U.S. pork market.\u201d The same article complained that U.S. state laws \u201ctend to favor smaller farms in the United States and disadvantage multinational foreign-funded enterprises, weakening the ability of Chinese pork enterprises to operate efficiently<\/em>.\u201d In other words, the Communist Party\u2019s own press says this bill will take market share from American family farms and hand it to Chinese companies.<\/p>\n

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Dozens of House Republicans have already seen through it, calling the provision sweeping federal overreach that would strip states of authority, override the choices of their own citizens, and help China finish the takeover it started when it bought Smithfield in 2013. To make matters worse, a found the SOB Act would erase virtually all state pre-harvest farming standards, including laws that protect livestock, and all of us, from diseases like avian flu and invasive pests like screwworms.<\/p>\n

To understand why the NPPC would champion such a dangerous bill, look no further than its governing body. A Smithfield employee has held a seat on NPPC\u2019s board every year since 2012. In six of those years, including 2026, China\u2019s U.S. division has held two seats at once, something no other company has ever done. Smithfield employees have also served on the nominating committee that vets every candidate for that board. And under the NPPC\u2019s own , its largest producer is almost certainly its largest funder.<\/p>\n

Who stands behind Smithfield is no mystery either. As the Daily Caller reported, WH Group\u2019s chairman and four top executives are Chinese Communist Party members, and at the company\u2019s Chinese flagship, Party members make up 85% of senior executives. The chairman himself is a former People\u2019s Liberation Army soldier who spent twenty years in China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress.<\/p>\n

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The state-owned Bank of China financed Smithfield\u2019s 2013 takeover with a $4 billion loan, and the acquiring company\u2019s own president said the government backed the deal \u201cwith preferential policy, as well as investment.\u201d This is the company that benefits if the SOB Act becomes law.<\/p>\n

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The family farmers the NPPC claims to speak for want no part of this. Independent hog farmers traveled to Washington last fall to oppose the bill their own lobby calls its top priority. \u201cThey\u2019re saying that they represent us all, but they do not represent us at all,\u201d Pennsylvania hog farmer Brent Hershey stated.<\/p>\n

The same could be said for the lawmakers who do the NPPC and WH Group\u2019s bidding, and they can\u2019t claim ignorance. For years, Congress has held hearings on Chinese influence over American farmland, food processing, and supply chains. Members even created a select committee dedicated to confronting the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n

But one of this committee\u2019s members, Rep. Ashley Hinson of Iowa, is a lead sponsor of the SOB Act and has accepted over $27,000 in campaign contributions from the NPPC and Smithfield. All the while, Hinson talks tough on China: \u201cWe must block the CCP from\u2026exerting control over our food supply,\u201d she warns, and \u201cwe can\u2019t sit on our hands as the CCP works to infiltrate our agriculture industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imagine a Cold War committee created to take on the Soviet Union whose own members warned of communist infiltration by day and cashed checks from Moscow\u2019s American subsidiary by night. Hinson says we can\u2019t sit on our hands while the CCP infiltrates American agriculture, but hers are full of Smithfield\u2019s checks.<\/p>\n

Hinson should explain this hypocrisy to her voters, and so should Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, who have repeatedly postured about the threat Chinese control of the U.S. food supply poses while sponsoring the SOB Act and accepting over $25,000 each from the NPPC and WH Group\u2019s U.S. branch.<\/p>\n

Congress has a choice. It can reject the SOB Act and side with the farmers and voters it actually answers to, or it can hand the biggest prize in the Farm Bill to a lobby whose most powerful member answers to Beijing.<\/p>\n

Before they call the roll, legislators should answer the question: when the \u201cvoice of America\u2019s pork producers\u201d speaks, is it in English or Mandarin?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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