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November 5, 2026
Floridians made history in 2002 when we voted to ban cruel crates for pregnant pigs. Many other states have followed our lead and passed similar laws.
But a damaging federal bill called the Save Our Bacon Act could wipe out many state animal welfare and food safety laws and prohibit voters in Florida and other states from creating new ones.
This should raise a red flag: Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods, the country’s largest pork producer, is one of the Save Our Bacon Act’s prominent backers.
Washington bureaucrats and foreign corporations shouldn’t tell voters in the “Free State of Florida” what laws we can or can’t pass.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott recently called out Smithfield after a report on its lobbying on the farm bill and Save Our Bacon Act. He warned that Communist China is working to “control our food supply” and called Chinese ownership of Smithfield a “national security issue.”
Congress is working to finish the farm bill before year’s end. Scott should join Florida colleagues like Reps. Byron Donalds and Anna Paulina Luna, who have opposed the Save Our Bacon Act, and fight to keep it out.
Dennis Goodman, Port St. Lucie