Glad to see this go viral — especially among conservatives. This fight isn't left vs. right. It's voters vs. lobbyists.
A lot of people are asking how this got into the farm bill. The answer: House Ag Chair Glenn Thompson put it in. Small farmers in his own district — who don't use crates — urged him not to. He said he didn't care: the National Pork Producers Council wanted it.
Principled conservatives like Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, David Valadao, Nancy Mace, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Thomas Massie have strongly opposed this provision. But too many Congressional Republicans have fallen in line with the industrial pork lobby.
The farm bill still has to pass the full House, then the Senate, where it needs 60 votes. It'll be a close vote, so every vote will matter.
Call 202-224-3121, select your reps and senators, and tell them: oppose the farm bill if the Save Our Bacon Act stays in. We can stop this.
Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates.
Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023.
Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state.
The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices.
Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at
senate.gov and
house.gov — it takes two minutes and it matters.