Reposted from: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4621708/save-our-bacon-act-wont-make-america-healthy/
June 24, 2026
People want healthier food, and voters have passed laws requiring better standards for how that food is produced. American family farmers are meeting those standards.
But corporate pork interests, including foreign-owned Smithfield, are pressuring Congress to roll back those standards.
That is the fight over the so-called Save Our Bacon Act, which lawmakers should keep out of the final farm bill.
The bill would strip states of the right to set higher standards for food sold within their own borders. Its main target is California’s Proposition 12, a voter-approved law that requires pork, eggs, and veal sold in the state to meet stronger animal welfare standards.
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Angela Huffman is cofounder and president of Farm Action. She has spent 15 years in food and agriculture policy reform and market development, and raises sheep on her family’s sixth-generation farm in Ohio.